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Description (anglais) : ‘The need of the border country was added. The Turkish invasions have been a plague that recurs almost every year since 1469. In addition to the Turkish distress, there was internal war. In Styria, noble mercenary leaders revolted and brought new misery to the country. The peasant suffered particularly from these wars and feuds. The Turkish cavalry armies scorched and plundered the valleys, murdered children and old people, desecrated women and girls and led men and women into slavery by the tens of thousands. The nobles found shelter behind their castle walls from this rapidly passing storm. In the areas where the Turk did not come, the common man was kept from his work by the land contingent, which had become the common form of national defense in Styria in this century, and the robots that he had to do to fortify the cities remote. The extraordinarily high taxes which were incessantly imposed on the country to restore internal peace and to ward off enemies hit him above all.’