Demographic changes after the

Turkish YokeBy: Nagy Dóra 12.c

Enormous decrease in the populationReasons:• Wars -15-years war - Wars in the Decline of

Transylvania - The Liberating Wars

• Deportation• Genocide• Epidemics after the wars (Plague)

Mostly the Conquered parts and Transylvania but there were signs in Royal Hungary too.

International AspectsHungary:• Population during

Matthias’s reign:

3,5 - 4 M

decrease to approximately

3 M-15%

Europe

• Population growht of

50% - 60%by 1700

Territories• Areas along the river Danube• Areas on the Great Plain

North, East : rusins, slovaks, romaniansremained almost intact

Decrease in Hungarian ethnicitySerbians, Romanians arrived to the extict

territories

Changings in the landscape• Towns along the border castle system

became abandoned• Churches Bastions• Population died out / runaway

• Agricultural fields swamps & sand deserts

• Deforestation

Moved to bigger market towns

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