Subiect: Aspects Regarding the Evolution of the Fiscal Estate in the Autonomous Principality of Transylvania
Consisting of land domains, usually surrounding a fortress, the fiscal estate was the material basis for the political authority of any Transylvanian prince. The fiscal estate was formed in the first decades of the autonomous principality as the domains of the Catholic Church were secularized after the Diet of Sebeş in 1556. For the next century and a half the fiscal estate had a complex evolution, reflecting the military, political and economical situation of each reign.
