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03.08.1720.
According to a census, in the Bodrog District there were 5.772, and in the Bačka District 6.498 people. In the Danube area there were 6.114, and in the Tisza area 12.252, which made 30.636 civilians and soldiers with families. In the Danube area there were five 'military entrenchments', and in the Tisza area 14. The total number of households was 3.540, under the military government there were 19, and under the civil government 55 settlements.
03.08.1791.
In a just built tower of the church of St. George in Sombor, the charter with the names of many a prominent citizen of Sombor was placed. A contract for the construction had been signed a year earlier between Joseph Hacker from Pest and the Orthodox Church Commune of Sombor at the sum of 7.000 forints.
04.08.1698.
Dated a description of the surrounding of Sombor by an unknown Frenchman, who probably fell behind the regiments of Eugene of Savoy, who almost a year earlier led them at the battle of Senta. Under the title Bivouacking near Sombor, among the other things it says that: The Emperor's army with cavalry in one line and infantry in two lines left Kolut and Monoštor passing through woods and fields on various roads on which they could march freely because there were no more rivers or swamps to cross all to the swamp named Mostonga. It has two separate springs above Baja and they flow paralelly until one kilometre behind Sombor where they join in one flow... Sombor is an open town with beautiful nature and vineyards, and it had very strong trade in the times of the Turks...
06.08.1772.
In Bezdan an arrangement was done according to which 368 subjects cultivate 4.966 acres of ploughland and 1.651 acres of meadows, for which they paid to the country treasury 360 forints for the rent, on the better land one seventh, and on the worse one ninth of the crop. Also, they were obliged to work with a team of horses for 6.129 days and to work manually for 12.373 days. Furthermore, peasants had to give 118 cubic metres of firewood, 118 ic of butter, 237 cocks, 237 hens and 1.427 eggs a year. 27 house owners who did not rent a land had to work manually for 486 days, and 26 subtenants for 312 days. The municipality had 80 acres of ploughland and 90 acres of meadows, and a church had 18 acres of ploughland. A house owner who tried to deceive the country had to settle the damage, and to take 20 spanks. On the eyot there were three fishing spots for which one had to pay 195 forints a year for rent.
06.08.1831.
In BEZDAN cholera started raging, and the epidemic lasted exactly a month, during which 700-800 people got ill, and about 350 of them died; the exact number is not known because at the time the cause of death had not yet been written in a civil register of deaths.
