ABSTRACT
The people of Atany possessed vineyards in the hatar of neighboring Heves, on a sandy soil suitable for growing grapes, from at least the sixteenth century. For centuries the people of Atany lived principally by the use of their hatar. By following changes in the modes of cultivation, in the plants cultivated, and in the herds grazing in the pastures of the area, get a synoptic sketch of the development of Atany’s agriculture. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the draft animals were oxen. In 1828, 435 horses but only 67 oxen were recorded at Atany. Over the last two hundred years the határ of Atany has been redistributed several times. Patterns of land tenure and property titles have also changed. Formerly, between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, the people of Atany used to lease appreciable tracts of land outside their hatar.
