The Water-Use of Mining Towns and Their Villages in Medieval Hungary: The Example of Kremnica

The paper addresses the long-term impact of mining towns and villages under authority these on waterscapes in northern area medieval Kingdom Hungary (presentday Slovakia). focuses privileging practices settlers founded by burghers a town, Kremnica. argues that analysing Kremnica’s practice settling towns’ surroundings may one hand shed light privileges town itself, other, be crucial to understanding previously neglected environmental pre-modern times. while charters privilege provided seldom refer freedom exploit water, did use waterways their benefit. In arguing for this discusses freedoms settlers’ Kremnica fourteenth–fifteenth centuries. – or leading process led an increased pressure areas had lasting consequences landscapes regions.