Sátorhely vagy Majs? Földvár környezeti jellemzői – A mohácsi csata centrumtérségének lokalizálása
Sátorhely Or Majs? The Environmental Features of Földvár – Localizing the Central Area of the Battle of Mohács

Summary/Abstract: Földvár is a medieval community with a large estate to the south of Mohács. According to István Brodarics’s report on the Battle of Mohács, the centre of the clash was here in 1526. The exact location of this village has been debated for about a hundred years. The authors of this paper examined the geographical references of medieval and modern sources and compared them with the features of the reconstructed landscape from sixteenth- and seventeenth-century sources, based on old maps, written sources and geoinformation modelling. Based on this, it was established that the environment of Majs does not correspond to the geographical features of medieval Földvár and that the description of the battle site also points to Sátorhely as the likely location. The village was somewhere in the administrative area of today’s Sátorhely, and the boundaries of the estate were clearly identifiable as the area connected to the “great ditch” north of the village, to the Danócz marsh / Vizslaki meadow in the east and to the valley of the Borza Stream in the west.

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