Egy szokatlan demográfiai jelenség és háttere a szegedi szandzsák területéről. Mikla puszta hirtelen várossá válása 1578-ban
An Unusual Demographic Phenomenon and its Background in the Territory of Sancak of Szeged. The Sudden Transformation of Mikla into a Town in 1578

Summary/Abstract: In 1578, a deserted place called Mikla (nahiye of Solt) was suddenly turned into a town by the influx of Hungarian reayas from three surrounding villages. The kadi of Kalocsa decreed that the missing population in these villages should be covered by pastoralist nomads (haymane) from two deserts belonging to the nahiye of Szabadka. The study explores the background of this semi-nomadic population, which was unregistered in the surveys of the sancak, thus remained almost invisible for the researchers. It examines the role of the haymanes in the organisations of peasantsoldiers of the Ottoman Empire, among the yürüks and voynuks. It reveals the Vlach origin of the semi-nomadic population in Southern Hungary, and their migration from the Vlach areas of the Northern Balkans.

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