Határjárás a középkori Erdélyben
Border inspection in mediaeval Transylvania

Summary/Abstract: Perambulation was a legal act exercised by the king in the Middle Ages. Several surviving charters from the Middle Ages contain descriptions of borders and disputes regarding perambulation. These charters are of major importance for local history, due to the fact that they also mention villages that no longer exist, while also providing descriptions of natural history. In our earliest surviving document, the Establishing Charter of the Tihany Abbey, which was issued by King Andrew I, we find toponyms in Hungarian. By examining the process of perambulation, the author provides a welldefined picture of the legal customs of the medieval Transylvania as well as of its settlements and borders.

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