In 1255, Hungarian King Belo IV granted the settlement town privileges - not as a mark of favour for the locals, but in order to attract German settlers to develop the mining of precious metals in the ...

THE TOWN of Nižný Medzev lies in eastern Slovakia, not far from Košice. It was founded by Germans who were invited there in 1241 by King Belo IV after the Tatar invasions. THE TOWN of Nižný Medzev ...

They also included Komárno, that is mentioned by one of the letters of Belo IV from the year 1245. After the retreat of the Tartars from Hungary, the king, supporting the flourish of the medieval ...