1670s · 1703–1711 Kuruc countryKurucký kraj

The anti-Habsburg risings had their heartland here. The rebels were called kuruc; Imre Thököly's revolt in the 1670s and 1680s and then Francis II Rákóczi's war of 1703–1711 both drew their soldiers out of Ung, Zemplín and Šariš, and both were fought across this ground. Rákóczi's uprising began in 1703 in the country just east and south of here, and for eight years the whole east was outside the emperor's control. The peace of Szatmár in 1711 ended it. The Habsburgs then made certain the eastern counties would never be able to raise an army of their own again, which is one reason this corner stayed poor and quiet for the next two centuries.Protihabsburské povstania mali práve tu svoje jadro. Povstalcov volali kuruci; Tököliho vzbura v 70. a 80. rokoch 17. storočia aj vojna Františka II. Rákóciho v rokoch 1703 – 1711 verbovali vojakov v Užskej, Zemplínskej a Šarišskej stolici a obe sa odohrávali práve tu. Rákóciho povstanie sa začalo roku 1703 v kraji hneď na východ a juh odtiaľto a celý východ bol osem rokov mimo cisárovej moci. Ukončil ho Satmársky mier roku 1711. Habsburgovci sa potom postarali, aby si východné stolice už nikdy nepostavili vlastné vojsko — aj preto zostal tento kút na ďalšie dve storočia chudobný a tichý.