The thirtieth or thirtieth customs ( hu, harmincad, la, tricesima) was a tax on foreign trade in the

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Origin

A charter that

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issued for the

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in 1208 preserved the earliest reference to the thirtieth. According to the charter, wine and foodstuffs delivered for the monks and their guests were exempt from all tolls and the thirtieth at

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and on the bridges of the rivers

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and

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. Royal revenue from the thirtieth amounted at 1,500 marks when Andrew II granted it to his daughter,

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in 1235. According to a scholarly theory, the granting of customs and tolls to ecclesiastic institutions from the late 12th century gave rise to the collection of the thirtieth, because it represented the part of the revenues that the kings preserved for themselves or for their queens.

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* * * * Medieval Kingdom of Hungary Taxation in Hungary {{Tax-stub