Indigenat (Hungary)
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In the
history of Hungary Hungary in its modern (post-1946) borders roughly corresponds to the Great Hungarian Plain (the Carpathian Basin) in Central Europe. During the Iron Age, it was located at the crossroads between the cultural spheres of Scythian tribes (such a ...
indigenat was conferring the rights of citizenship and
nobility Nobility is a social class found in many societies that have an aristocracy. It is normally appointed by and ranked immediately below royalty. Nobility has often been an estate of the realm with many exclusive functions and characteristics. T ...
upon foreign nationals. John Paget (1850) footnoted: John Paget,
Hungary and Transylvania; with Remarks on Their Condition, Social, Political, and Economical
', London, 1850
p. 197, electronic archive
(assessed Feb. 16 2013)
Although the king can make any Hungarian peasant noble, he cannot confer on a foreigner, not even on an Austrian subject, the rights of Hungarian nobility ; this power, both in
Hungary Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning much of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia and ...
and
Transylvania Transylvania ( or ; ; or ; Transylvanian Saxon dialect, Transylvanian Saxon: ''Siweberjen'') is a List of historical regions of Central Europe, historical and cultural region in Central Europe, encompassing central Romania. To the east and ...
, the
Diet Diet may refer to: Food * Diet (nutrition), the sum of the food consumed by an organism or group * Dieting, the deliberate selection of food to control body weight or nutrient intake ** Diet food, foods that aid in creating a diet for weight loss ...
reserves to itself. The Indigenat tax -- in Hungary two thousand, and in Transylvania one thousand
ducat The ducat ( ) coin was used as a trade coin in Europe from the later Middle Ages to the 19th century. Its most familiar version, the gold ducat or sequin containing around of 98.6% fine gold, originated in Venice in 1284 and gained wide inter ...
s -- is often remitted as a compliment to the person on whom the right of citizenship is conferred.


See also

*
Indigenat (disambiguation) Indigénat was a set of laws creating, in practice, an inferior legal status for natives of French Colonies. Indigenat or indigenate, literally meaning "the right by the place of birth", may refer to: * Ius indigenatus * Indygenat ''Indygenat ...
, similar concepts in other places


References

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