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The age of water stairs, iron and steel did not pass without a trace in Liptov either: between 1969 and 1975, a huge dam system was used to create a reservoir near Liptószentmiklós (Liptovský Mikuláš), officially for flood protection. The artificial lake, named Liptovská Mara…

In March 2025, the Foundation acquired ten documents related to Magyaróvár from the years between 1794 and 1849 from a private individual in Budapest. According to the attached expert opinion, the small collection was already in the sights of one of the public collections in…

The Foundation brought this thick, beautifully displayed volume home from the United States, New Jersey. Its Latin title is: Elenchus Biliczensium litteralium instrumentorum confectus 1808. (“List of Bélicz documents made in 1808”). Bélic, i.e. Kis- and Nagybélic, was located in the historical Nyitra County, on…

This beautiful volume came into the possession of the Foundation from a private individual in Pécs, which contains summaries in Latin of civil, divorce and criminal cases concluded at the Seven-Person Board – the court of appeal of the curia – in 1816. The manuscript…

Lajos Petri (before 1928, his birth name was Lajos Pick), whose father was Márk Pick, the founder of the Pick Salami Factory in Szeged – worked as a trained and qualified sculptor (1884–1963). His mother was Katalin Weisz, the daughter of the rabbi of Lugos.…