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Istvándi
Istvándi ( hr, Išvandin) is a village in Somogy county, Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia a .... History According to ''László Szita'' the settlement was completely Hungarian in the 18th century. Notable people * Lajos Magyar External links Street map (Hungarian) References Populated places in Somogy County {{Somogy-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Somogy County
Somogy ( hu, Somogy megye, ; hr, Šomođska županija; sl, Šomodska županija, german: Komitat Schomodei) is an administrative county (comitatus or ''megye'') in present Hungary, and also in the former Kingdom of Hungary. Somogy County lies in south-western Hungary, on the border with Croatia (Koprivnica-Križevci County and Virovitica-Podravina County). It stretches between the river Dráva and the southern shore of Lake Balaton. It shares borders with the Hungarian counties of Zala, Veszprém, Fejér, Tolna, and Baranya. It is the most sparsely populated county in Hungary. The capital of Somogy County is Kaposvár. Its area is 6,036 km2. History Somogy was also the name of a historic administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory, which was slightly larger than that of present Somogy County, is now in south-western Hungary. The capital of the county was and still is Kaposvár. Demographics In 2015, it had a population of 312,084 an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lajos Magyar
Lajos Magyar (; 25 November 1891, Istvándi, Hungary – 17 July 1940, Moscow, Soviet Union) was a Hungarian Communist journalist and sinologist, active in the Hungarian Soviet Republic of 1919, after the fall of which he was imprisoned by the Horthy regime. In 1922 Magyar went to the Soviet Union as the result of an exchange of prisoners. There he worked on the staff of the Comintern and at the newspaper ''Pravda''. Between 1926 and 1927 he was sent on a diplomatic mission to China. From 1929 to 1934 he served as deputy chief of the Oriental Secretariat of the Executive Committee of the Communist International. In 1934, Magyar was falsely accused of being involved in the Kirov assassination; he was arrested and sentenced to prison convicted as a " Zinovievite-Terrorist". Magyar was sent to a gulag, where he ultimately perished. The "Guidebook to the Pantheon of the Working-Class Movement of the Imre Mező Avenue Cemetery" reports that Lajos Magyar died on July 17, 1940, but desp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barcs District
Barcs ( hu, Barcsi járás) is a district in southern part of Somogy County. ''Barcs'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Southern Transdanubia Statistical Region. Geography Barcs District borders with Csurgó District, Nagyatád District and Kaposvár District to the north, Szigetvár District and Sellye District ''(Baranya County)'' to the east, the Croatian counties of Virovitica-Podravina and Koprivnica-Križevci to the southwest. The number of the inhabited places in Barcs District is 26. Municipalities The district has 1 town and 25 villages. (ordered by population, as of 1 January 2013) The bolded municipality is city. See also *List of cities and towns in Hungary Hungary has 3,152 municipalities as of July 15, 2013: 346 towns (Hungarian term: ''város'', plural: ''városok''; the terminology doesn't distinguish between cities and towns – the term town is used in official translations) and 2,806 villa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Countries Of The World
The following is a list providing an overview of sovereign states around the world with information on their status and recognition of their sovereignty. The 206 listed states can be divided into three categories based on membership within the United Nations System: 193 member states of the United Nations, UN member states, 2 United Nations General Assembly observers#Present non-member observers, UN General Assembly non-member observer states, and 11 other states. The ''sovereignty dispute'' column indicates states having undisputed sovereignty (188 states, of which there are 187 UN member states and 1 UN General Assembly non-member observer state), states having disputed sovereignty (16 states, of which there are 6 UN member states, 1 UN General Assembly non-member observer state, and 9 de facto states), and states having a political status of the Cook Islands and Niue, special political status (2 states, both in associated state, free association with New Zealand). Compi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Regions Of Hungary
There are seven statistical regions of Hungary created in 1999 by the Law 1999/XCII amending Law 1996/XXI. Regions are groupings of the 19 counties and the capital city. *''Northern Hungary'' includes the counties Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén, Heves and Nógrád. *''Northern Great Plain'' includes the counties Hajdú-Bihar, Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok, and Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg. *''Southern Great Plain'' includes the counties Bács-Kiskun, Békés and Csongrád-Csanád. *''Central Hungary'' includes the county of Pest and the capital Budapest. *''Central Transdanubia'' includes the counties Komárom-Esztergom, Fejér and Veszprém. *''Western Transdanubia'' includes the counties Győr-Moson-Sopron, Vas, Zala. *''Southern Transdanubia'' includes the counties Baranya, Somogy and Tolna. Euroregions Hungary belongs into the following euroregions: * Carpathian Euroregion: Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén, Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg, Hajdú-Bihar, Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok, Heves * West P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southern Transdanubia
Southern Transdanubia ( hu, Dél-Dunántúl) is a statistical ( NUTS 2) region of Hungary. It is part of the Transdanubia (NUTS 1) region. Southern Transdanubia includes the counties of Somogy, Tolna, and Baranya. Its capital is the city of Pécs. See also *List of regions of Hungary There are seven statistical regions of Hungary created in 1999 by the Law 1999/XCII amending Law 1996/XXI. Regions are groupings of the 19 counties and the capital city. *''Northern Hungary'' includes the counties Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén, Hev ... References {{coord, 46, 04, 15, N, 18, 13, 59, E, type:adm1st_source:kolossus-itwiki, display=title NUTS 2 statistical regions of the European Union ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Counties Of Hungary
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Districts Of Hungary
Districts of Hungary are the second-level divisions of Hungary after counties. They replaced the 175 subregions of Hungary in 2013. Altogether, there are 174 districts in the 19 counties, and there are 23 districts in Budapest. Districts of the 19 counties are numbered by Arabic numerals and named after the district seat, while districts of Budapest are numbered by Roman numerals and named after the historical towns and neighbourhoods. In Hungarian, the districts of the capital and the rest of the country hold different titles. The districts of Budapest are called ''kerületek'' (lit. district, pl.) and the districts of the country are called ''járások.'' By county Baranya County Bács-Kiskun County Békés County Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County Csongrád-Csanád County Fejér County Győr-Moson-Sopron County Hajdú-Bihar County Heves County Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County Komárom-Esztergom County Nógrád County Pest County ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Central European Summer Time
Central European Summer Time (CEST), sometimes referred to as Central European Daylight Time (CEDT), is the standard clock time observed during the period of summer daylight-saving in those European countries which observe Central European Time (CET; UTC+01:00) during the other part of the year. It corresponds to UTC+02:00, which makes it the same as Eastern European Time, Central Africa Time, South African Standard Time, Egypt Standard Time and Kaliningrad Time in Russia. Names Other names which have been applied to Central European Summer Time are Middle European Summer Time (MEST), Central European Daylight Saving Time (CEDT), and Bravo Time (after the second letter of the NATO phonetic alphabet). Period of observation Since 1996, European Summer Time has been observed between 01:00 UTC (02:00 CET and 03:00 CEST) on the last Sunday of March, and 01:00 UTC on the last Sunday of October; previously the rules were not uniform across the European Union. There were proposals ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Catholic Dioceses In Hungary
The Roman Catholic Church in Hungary is composed of: * A Latin hierarchy, comprising ** four ecclesiastical provinces, comprising their Metropolitan archdioceses and in total nine suffragan dioceses ** the exempt Military Ordinariate ** the exempt Territorial Archabbey of Pannonhalma. * The overlapping proper province of the Hungarian Greek Catholic Church (Eastern Catholic ''sui iuris'', Byzantine Rite in Hungarian) There is also an Apostolic nunciature, the papal diplomatic representation in Hungary. Current Latin Dioceses (Roman Rite) Exempt ''Sui iuris'' Jurisdictions ''directly subject to the Holy See * Military Ordinariate of Hungary (Tábori Püspökség) * Territorial Abbey of Pannonhalma Ecclesiastical Province of Esztergom–Budapest * Metropolitan Archdiocese of Esztergom–Budapest, primatial see of Hungary **Diocese of Győr ** Diocese of Székesfehérvár Ecclesiastical Province of Eger * Metropolitan Archdiocese of Eger ** Diocese of Debrec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Catholic Diocese Of Kaposvár
The Diocese of Kaposvár ( la, Dioecesis Kaposvarensis) is a Latin Rite suffragan diocese in the Ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Veszprém, in southwestern Hungary. Its cathedral episcopal, Our Lady of the Assumption Cathedral, is dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary ( hu, Nagyboldogasszony-székesegyház), in the city of Kaposvár, capital of Somogy County. History * Established on May 31, 1993 as Diocese of Kaposvár, on territory split off from its future Metropolitan, the then Diocese of Veszprém. Statistics As per 2014, it pastorally served 290,425 Catholics (73.5% of 395,207 total) on 6,764 km² in 102 parishes with 95 priests (diocesan), 4 deacons, 6 lay religious (sisters) and 8 seminarians. Episcopal ordinaries (all Roman rite natives) ;''Suffragan Bishops of Kaposvár'' * Béla Balás (31 May 1993 – 25 March 2017), previously Titular Bishop of Feradi maius (1992.08.10 – 1993.05.31) as Auxiliary Bishop of Veszprém (Hungary) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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