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Biatorbágy
Biatorbágy (german: Wiehall-Kleinturwall) is a town in Pest County, Budapest metropolitan area, Hungary. It has a population of 13,889 (2019). Districts * Bia (german: Wiehall) * Torbágy (german: Kleinturwall) History On 13 September 1931 a demented man (Szilveszter Matuska) blasted the train to Vienna on the viaduct of Biatorbágy. Sport *Biatorbágyi SE, association football club Twin towns – sister cities Biatorbágy is twinned with: * Herbrechtingen, Germany (1989) * Remetea, Romania (2001) * Kiti, Cyprus (2004) * Dolný Štál, Slovakia (2012) * Velyka Dobron Velyka Dobron ( uk, Велика Добронь, hu, Nagydobrony) is a village in Zakarpattia Oblast (province) of western Ukraine. Geography The village is located around 42 km south-east of Uzhhorod, and 23 km west of Mukachevo among ..., Ukraine (2013) Notable people * Ferenc Juhász (1928–2015), poet * Gyula Juhász (1930–1993), historian * Csaba Horváth (born 1971), canoeist Refer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Biatorbágyi SE
Biatorbágyi Sport Egyesület is a professional football club based in Biatorbágy, Pest County, Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the .... The club competes in the Pest county league. Name changes *1903: establishment *1962: fusion of Biai SE and Torbágyi KSK *1962-1989: Biatorbágyi SE *1989–present: Viadukt SE Biatorbágy External links Profile on Magyar Futball References Football clubs in Hungary Association football clubs established in 1903 1903 establishments in Hungary {{Hungary-footyclub-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
M1 Motorway (Hungary)
The M1 motorway ( hu, M1-es autópálya) is a toll motorway in northwestern Hungary, connecting Budapest to Győr and Vienna. The first section of the motorway opened in the 1970s, reaching the Austrian border at Hegyeshalom in 1996. It follows the route of the old Route 1 one-lane highway. Openings timeline *Budapest – Budaörs (7 and 12 km): 1964 - ''half profile''; (this section was extended 2x3 lane in 1978-79) *Budaörs – Budakeszi (4 km): 1981 - ''half profile''; (this section was extended in 1986) *Budakeszi – Zsámbék (9 km): 1986 *Zsámbék – Bicske (13 km): 1985 *Bicske – Tatabánya-north (28 km): 1982 *Tatabánya-north – Komárom (20 km): 1975 - ''half profile''; (this section was extended 2x2 lane in 1990) *Komárom – Győr-east (19 km): 1977 - ''half profile''; (this section was extended 2x2 lane in 1990) *Győr-east – Győr-Ménfőcsanak (8 km): 1994 *Győr-Ménfőcsanak – Győr-west (14 km): 199 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gyula Juhász (historian)
Gyula Juhász ( Bia, September 11, 1930 – Budapest, April 13, 1993) was a Hungarian historian, a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1985). He was the brother of the Hungarian poet Ferenc Juhász. Gyula Juhász was born in a peasant family. He graduated from a military school, but in 1956 he left the army protesting against the suppression of the 1956 Revolution. In 1958, he graduated from the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest with a degree in history. For the following decades, up to 1985 he has been working for the Historical Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. From 1985 up to his death in 1993 he was the director of National Széchényi Library. In 1985, he was elected to the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. His main research fields were the general history of the diplomacy, and the Hungarian politics between the World Wars (1930s-1940s). As from 1963 until his death he was teaching history of diplomacy at Marx Károly University of Economics. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Szilveszter Matuska
Szilveszter Matuska (29 January 1892 – disappeared c. 1945) was a Hungarian mass murderer and mechanical engineer who made two successful and at least two unsuccessful attempts to derail passenger trains in Hungary, Germany and Austria in 1930 and 1931. He was born in Csantavér (now Čantavir, Serbia). Crimes Matuska made at least two failed attempts to derail trains in Austria in December 1930 and January 1931.''Murder in the 1930s'' p.230 Matuska's first successful crime was the derailment of the Berlin-Basel express train south of Berlin on 8 August 1931. More than 100 people were injured, several of them seriously, but there were no deaths. Because of the discovery of a defaced Nazi newspaper at the scene of the crime, among other things, the attack was believed to have been politically motivated. A bounty of 100,000 reichsmark was put on the perpetrator. Matuska's second and more notorious successful crime was the derailment of the Vienna Express headed towards Vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferenc Juhász (poet)
Ferenc Juhász (16 August 1928 – 2 December 2015) was a Hungarian poet and Golden Wreath laureate (1992). He was considered a close contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature ) , image = Nobel Prize.png , caption = , awarded_for = Outstanding contributions in literature , presenter = Swedish Academy , holder = Annie Ernaux (2022) , location = Stockholm, Sweden , year = 1901 , ... in 1976. His brother was historian Gyula Juhász. Ferenc Juhász published his first poem in 1946. His first book of poems, ''The Winged Foal'', was published in 1949. His poem ''The boy changed into a stag clamors at the gate of secrets'', has been translated into English. References 1928 births 2015 deaths Hungarian male poets 20th-century Hungarian poets 20th-century Hungarian male writers Struga Poetry Evenings Golden Wreath laureates People from Biatorbágy {{Hungary-poet-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herbrechtingen
Herbrechtingen () is a town in the Heidenheim (district), district of Heidenheim in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. It is situated on the river Brenz (river), Brenz, 7 km south of Heidenheim an der Brenz, Heidenheim, and 28 km northeast of Ulm. Twin towns – sister cities Herbrechtingen is Twin towns and sister cities, twinned with: * Mošnov, Czech Republic (1977) * Karavukovo, Serbia (1984) * Horná Štubňa, Slovakia (1986) * Biatorbágy, Hungary (1989) References Heidenheim (district) Württemberg {{Heidenheim-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Budapest Metropolitan Area
The Budapest metropolitan area ( hu, budapesti agglomeráció) is a statistical area that describes the reach of commuter movement to and from Budapest and its surrounding suburbs. Created by Hungary's national statistical office HCSO to describe suburban development around centres of urban growth, the surrounding a more densely built and densely populated urban area. As of 2014 the Budapest metropolitan area, with its 7,626 km² (2,944 sq mi), extends significantly beyond Budapest's administrative region (encompasses 193 settlements around the city), a region also commonly referred to as Central Hungary. It had a population of 3,303,786 inhabitants at the January 2013 census, making it the ''tenth largest'' urban region in Europe ( |
Telephone Numbers In Hungary
This article details the dialling protocol for reaching Hungarian telephone numbers from within Hungary. The standard landline number consists of 6 numerals except those in Budapest which have 7 numerals, as do mobile numbers. Before keying the subscriber number required, a caller may need to enter a domestic code (06) and an area code. Hungary area codes In Hungary the standard lengths for area codes is two, except for Budapest (the capital), which has the area code 1. Landline numbers are six digits in general; numbers in Budapest and mobile numbers are seven digits. Making calls within and from Hungary Calls within local areas can be made by dialling the number without the area code, such as 123 4567 in Budapest or 123 456 in other areas. However, this is not permitted in mobile phone networks. Domestic calls to all other area codes must be preceded with 06 + area code. For example, a call from Budapest to Monor (area code 29) would be made as 06 29 123 456 and a call from M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Cities And Towns Of Hungary
Hungary has 3,152 Municipality, municipalities as of July 15, 2013: 346 towns (Hungarian term: ''város'', plural: ''városok''; the terminology doesn't distinguish between city, cities and towns – the term town is used in official translations) and 2,806 villages (Hungarian: ''község'', plural: ''községek'') of which 126 are classified as large villages (Hungarian: ''nagyközség'', plural: ''nagyközségek''). The number of towns can change, since villages can be elevated to town status by act of the President. The capital Budapest has a special status and is not included in any county while 23 of the towns are so-called urban counties (''megyei jogú város'' – town with county rights). All county seats except Budapest are urban counties. Four of the cities (Budapest, Miskolc, Győr, and Pécs) have agglomerations, and the Hungarian Statistical Office distinguishes seventeen other areas in earlier stages of agglomeration development. The largest city is the capital, Bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Budakeszi District
Budakeszi ( hu, Budakeszi járás) is a district in western part of Pest County. ''Budakeszi'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Central Hungary Statistical Region. Geography Budakeszi District borders with Pilisvörösvár District to the north, Budapest to the east, Érd District to the south, Bicske District ''(Fejér County)'' to the west, Tatabánya District ''(Komárom-Esztergom County)'' to the northwest. The number of the inhabited places in Budakeszi District is 12. Municipalities The district has 4 towns, 1 large village and 7 villages. (ordered by population, as of 1 January 2013) The municipalities in bold are cities, the municipality in ''italics'' is a large village. Demographics In 2011, it had a population of 83,670 and the population density was 290/km². Ethnicity Besides Hungarian majority, the main minorities are the German (approx. 3,700), Roma and Romanian (400), Russian (250) and Slovak ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kiti, Cyprus
Kiti ( el, Κίτι []; tr, Çite) is a village in the Larnaca District of Cyprus, located 11 km southwest of Larnaca. It is noted for the Byzantine church Panagia tis Angeloktistis ( el, Παναγία της Αγγελόκτιστης) or Panagia Angeloktisti ("Panagia Built by Angels"). According to local tradition, the residents of ancient Kition (now Larnaca) moved to Kiti in order to escape the Arab invasions. They decided to build the church, but according to tradition, the foundation of church moved overnight. According to legend, an army of angels came overnight to build the church, which is where it gets its name. Climate The climate in this area is described by the Köppen Climate Classification System Köppen is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Bernd Köppen (born 1951), German pianist and composer * Carl Köppen (1833-1907), German military advisor in Meiji era Japan * Edlef Köppen (1893–1939), German author an ... as " dry-summer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dolný Štál
Dolný Štál ( hu, Alistál, ) is a village and municipality in the Dunajská Streda District in the Trnava Region of south-west Slovakia. Geography The municipality lies at an altitude of 112 metres and covers an area of 29.997 km². It has a population of 1,962 people. History In the 9th century, the territory of Dolný Štál became part of the Kingdom of Hungary. In historical records, the village was first mentioned in 1111. Until the end of World War I, it was part of Hungary and fell within the Dunaszerdahely district of Pozsony County. After the Austro-Hungarian army disintegrated in November 1918, Czechoslovakian troops occupied the area. After the Treaty of Trianon of 1920, it became officially part of Czechoslovakia and fell within Bratislava County until 1927. In November 1938, the First Vienna Award granted the area to Hungary and it was held by Hungary until 1945. After Soviet occupation in 1945, the Czechoslovakian administration returned, and the village bec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
