Matthew Korvín and the golden age of Hungary

Following an agreement with Jiskra, the king Matthew Korvín centralised all political power in Hungary. It was in 1467 when he definitely eliminated the bratrícke movement (a left-over militant movement originating with the Husites). The king carried out an extensive monetary and tax reform and thus increased the royal revenues. Matthew Korvín also initiated the reform of the king's chancellery and judicial system. It was in Bratislava where the king established the first university in Hungary - Academia Istropolitana, which was spreading the Renaissance ideas. During this reign the Turkish expansive appetite for Europe was extinguished for several decades. When referring to the status of Trenčín during the late middle ages, we can say that the city belonged among the cities of the first category (not only in Slovakia, but in the whole of Hungary) that at the time between the 14^th and 15^th centuries came to be called the royal cities. In 1464, the king Matthew Korvín released a fragment of the king's thirtieth part (toll) that was to be used for building the fortification. During the reign of the Zápoľský family in the years to come, the castle underwent the most significant perfection in terms of its defence system. It was toward the end of the 15^th and the beginning of the 16^th century, when the idea of the Southern fortification was born. This idea is most likely to have come from the Adriatic area (Dubrovnik), which was under the Italian influence back then.