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Dobolt locality belongs to Halmeu district and has 348 inhabitants. Its first documentary attesting was made in 1323, when two of the aristocrats from Dobolt, Dominic and Matei, were examined as witnesses within a process referring to the Káta family. The village appears then in its unspecific form of Debouch. Dobolt used to be a part of the Ugocea district, where the villages were inhabited by small aristocrats. Therefore, all or the majority of the inhabitants used to have an aristocratic title. Their life was still very different from the life of the high aristocrats. The estates were small most of the times, and the daily activities of the small aristocracy weren’t very much different from the serfs’ routine, as they also used to work the field. Poverty was a characteristic of these small aristocrats, and it’s very well illustrated on an inscription from 1793. At that point, there were 27 nobles in the village owning 10 oxen, 9 cows and 5 pigs.
The villages with small aristocrats, including Dobolt, formed a compact area that was isolated because of the Eger Swamp that surrounded the village, transforming it in an island. This isolation brings specific characteristics for the village. Thus, the family relations among the local nobles and the neighboring villages are in fact almost inexistent. Also, a description from 1796 says that the good quality land couldn’t be used at its maximum potential because of flooding. At the end of the 18th century, when most of the villages used to practise agriculture in the triennial system, in Dobolt, people would use the biennial system, with reduced efficiency.
The most important personality of Dobolt is the teacher, poet and translator Sándor Gellért (1916-1988). A series of his poems is dedicated to the village where he spent his childhood.
The villages with small aristocrats, including Dobolt, formed a compact area that was isolated because of the Eger Swamp that surrounded the village, transforming it in an island. This isolation brings specific characteristics for the village. Thus, the family relations among the local nobles and the neighboring villages are in fact almost inexistent. Also, a description from 1796 says that the good quality land couldn’t be used at its maximum potential because of flooding. At the end of the 18th century, when most of the villages used to practise agriculture in the triennial system, in Dobolt, people would use the biennial system, with reduced efficiency.
The most important personality of Dobolt is the teacher, poet and translator Sándor Gellért (1916-1988). A series of his poems is dedicated to the village where he spent his childhood.
