Szabolcs

Szabolcs stands beside the Tisza, where a great earthen rampart once protected an early Hungarian county centre. King Ladislaus I held a church council and lawgiving assembly here in 1092. Its decrees addressed the conduct of clergy and laypeople, church observance and relations between religious communities. The earthwork and the village church recall the time when the castle gave its name to the county and served as a seat of royal authority.