UŽHOROD / Ungvár lies on the Už / Ung river. Its stone castle was undoubtedly built after the Mongol invasion of 1241-1242. The castle and its appurtenances were granted by King Ladislas IV of Hungary (1272-1290) to the Aba kindred. In the subsequent centuries both were owned by the Drugeth family of Homonna. In April 1646, a religious union between the Orthodox and Roman Catholic clergy was formed at the instigation of Anna Jakusith, wife of János Drugeth of Homonna. 63 Orthodox priests of the Užhorod estate joined the Roman Catholic Church with the proviso that they could practice the Orthodox form of worship and elect their bishops at their own will. In the late 1600s, the castle was acquired through marriage by Count Miklós Bercsényi (1665-1725), who had a rectangular palace built in it. After the Rákóczi war of independence, the castle was controlled by the Crown and functioned as a garrison until 1775. In that year, Maria Theresa of Habsburg granted it to the Greek Catholic Bishopric of Munkačevo / Munkács, which had just been relocated to Užhorod. The Greek Catholics then ran a seminary in it. In the 1850s, Užhorod was a fiscal market town with 8000 inhabitants, who dealt with husbandry, viticulture, and handicrafts. The Už river was directed into a canal called Zugó ('brawling'), on which a fullery and a steam saw mill were deployed.

Bibliography: Hodinka, Komócsy, Petőfi 1956b, Thaly, Zombory 1858