Szoboszló

Szoboszló lies on the Hungarian plain west of Debrecen. The papal tithe register of 1332–1336 records a church here, and a Gothic church was built in the fifteenth century. After the settlement was devastated in the wars of the Ottoman frontier, Prince Stephen Bocskai granted land here in 1606 to mounted hajdu soldiers under Péter Fekete Halasi. Their privileged community took possession of the old church and made Szoboszló one of the hajdu towns.