Coloman, like Ladislaus I, proves to be…

Coloman, like Ladislaus I, proves to be a great legislator, but he prescribes less severe punishments than had his uncle.

He has ordered that transactions between Christians and Jews are to be put into writing.

His laws concerning his Muslim subjects are aimed at their conversion, for instance, by obliging them to marry their daughters to Christians.

The presence of Jewish and Muslim merchants in the kingdom is due to its role as a crossroad of trading routes leading towards Constantinople, Regensburg and Kiev.

Local trade also exists, which enables Coloman to collect the marturina, the traditional in-kind tax of Slavonia, in cash.