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During the war of independence against Habsburg rule in the early 18th century, Prince Francis II Rákóczi, the leader of the Hungarians put his headquarters in Miskolc.

The imperial forces sacked and burnt the city in 1707.

Four years later half of the population fell victim of a cholera epidemic.

Miskolc recovered quickly, and another age of prosperity began again.

In 1724, Miskolc was chosen to be the city where the county hall of Borsod county would be built.

Many other significant buildings were built in the 18th and 19th centuries, including the city hall, schools, churches, the synagogue, and the theatre.

The theatre is commonly regarded as the first stone-built theatre of Hungary, although the first one was actually built in Kolozsvár ( then a part of Hungary, now Cluj-Napoca, Romania ).

According to the first nationally held census ( 1786 ) the city had a population of 14, 719, and 2, 414 houses.