1670s – 1711 Kuruc countryKurucký kraj

Zemplín was not a place the anti-Habsburg risings passed through; it was where they started. The rebels were called kuruc, and their leaders — Imre Thököly, and then Francis II Rákóczi, whose family seat lay just to the south — raised their armies out of these counties. Between the 1670s and the peace of 1711 the plain was fought over, requisitioned and burned again and again, by imperial troops and rebel troops in turn. A town of wooden houses on an open road pays for that kind of war far more heavily than a castle does. When it ended, the Habsburgs made sure the eastern counties would never raise an army of their own again.Zemplín nebol krajom, ktorým protihabsburské povstania len prechádzali — bol krajom, kde sa začínali. Povstalcov volali kuruci a ich vodcovia — Imrich Tököli a po ňom František II. Rákóci, ktorého rodové sídlo ležalo kúsok na juh — verbovali vojsko práve v týchto stoliciach. Od 70. rokov 17. storočia až po mier v roku 1711 sa o rovinu bojovalo, rekvirovalo sa na nej a horela znova a znova, raz pod cisárskym, raz pod povstaleckým vojskom. Mesto z drevených domov pri otvorenej ceste za takúto vojnu platí oveľa viac ako hrad. Keď sa skončila, Habsburgovci sa postarali, aby si východné stolice už nikdy nepostavili vlastnú armádu.