mine regale, mining towns, hamor

mine regale

The king's income from his royal prerogative, after part of the mined ores, which was collected through the urbura.

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mining towns

Towns, where the population was engaged in mining, and this activity defined the privileges of the town, too. By the end of the Middle Ages a few of them - the mining towns of the Garam region - became free royal mining towns. These were the following: Selmecbánya, Besztercebánya, Libetbánya, Bakabánya, Bélabánya, Körmöcbánya and Újbánya.

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hamor (the German Hammer = hammer)

A wheel turned by water power, attached to a beam that moved vertically and operated a huge windbag needed for the smelting furnace, or a hammer for forging. The smelting furnace, which joined this machine, other buildings and sometimes the mine itself were also called hamor [hammer].

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