Tartalmi rész
In this section you can find the crests of almost 2400 settlements of Hungary with notes. Find the starting letter of the settlement in the list and click if you want to see it.
Gáborján
(The County of Hajdú-Bihar)
Although Gáborján was not a city in the range of "Kishajdú" cities, it had the same privileges as the Hajdu-Cities. Its historical shield serembles to the 'Bihari Kishajdu' cities, which recorded the military virtue and bravery. In the turn of the century the 'Hungarian National Communal Committee', taking the historical preliminaries into account, accepted the following shield picture. The shield is blue and in its bottom guarter stands a haiduck hero wearing a red furcap (Bockai hat), frogged green clothes and red boots, holding a pulled out curved sabre in his right hand and a cut head of an enemy Turkish in his left. This coat of arms must be restored as the shield of Gáborján.
The first written source is from 1217. The willage was situated next to Berettyó river and had 32.5 allotments whose owners were lower nobilities (first of all the Vécseiek). Having driven the Turks out (1692) it was an inhabited settlement.
At that time it was a noble city, which had more privileges than the "bihari kishajdu" cities. Its residents bonght their village from the landowner (Vécseiek).
The Princes of Transylvania awarded them with a full noble charter because of their brave military service. The inhabitants of Gáborján were exempted from every charge, tax, gift, tenth, nineth, thirtieth, toll etc.
They even had these charters in 1692. After the Turkish captured Várad (1660) they canceled the charters and demanded charges, tenth and gifts. Having driven out the Turks, the Viennese Court did not take the charters into account. They lost their charters together with the, kishajdu cities. However, the memory of their charter is still alive, last century the residents of Gáborján were considered that their ancestors were haiducks.