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Tamási
Tamási is a town in Tolna County, Hungary. Tamási, named after St. Thomas, with a population of approximately 9200 is located just 30 kilometers East of Lake Balaton. The town was founded during Roman times and the Catholic church in the town center is built on the ruins of the Roman founded temple. During the 1525-1665 period the area was occupied by the invading Turks. This mainly agricultural town has the ruins of a castle torn mostly down after the 1848-1849 revolution by the conquering Austrians. There is a look-out tower on the top of the "Varhegy"- castle hill next to the thermal bath and the town, the vineyards and their wine cellars can be see well from this point. The Soviet Army controlled the town from 1945-1989 until the Soviet eastern bloc fell. Since that time the country and the area have been governed by a Western style parliamentary democracy. Hungary is a member of both NATO and the European Union. The main tourist attraction of Tamási is the spa and open-a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tamási District
Tamási ( hu, Tamási járás) is a district in north-western part of Tolna County. ''Tamási'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Southern Transdanubia Statistical Region. Geography Tamási District borders with Enying District and Sárbogárd District ''(Fejér County)'' to the north, Paks District and Szekszárd District to the east, Bonyhád District and Hegyhát District ''(Baranya County)'' to the south, Dombóvár District to the southwest, Tab District and Siófok District ''(Somogy County)'' to the west. The number of the inhabited places in Tamási District is 32. Municipalities The district has 3 towns, 2 large villages and 27 villages. (ordered by population, as of 1 January 2013) The bolded municipalities are cities, ''italics'' municipalities are large villages. See also *List of cities and towns in Hungary Hungary has 3,152 municipalities as of July 15, 2013: 346 towns (Hungarian term: ''város' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tolna County
Tolna ( hu, Tolna megye, ; german: Komitat Tolnau) is an administrative county (comitatus or megye) in present Hungary as it was of the former Kingdom of Hungary. It lies in central Hungary, on the west bank of the river Danube. It shares borders with the Hungarian counties Somogy, Fejér, Bács-Kiskun, and Baranya. The capital of Tolna county is Szekszárd. Its area is 3703 km2. History Tolna (in Latin: ''comitatus Tolnensis'') was also the name of a historic administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory, which was about the same as that of present Tolna county, is now in central Hungary. The capital of the county was Szekszárd. Demographics In 2015, it had a population of 225,936 and the population density was . Ethnicity Besides the Hungarian majority, the main minorities are the Germans (approx. 10,000) and Roma (8,500). Total population (2011 census): 230,361 Ethnic groups (2011 census): Identified themselves: 214 953 persons: *H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernie Konnyu
Ernest Leslie Konnyu (born May 17, 1937) is an American businessman and former Republican U.S. Representative from Silicon Valley, California, 12th congressional district, serving one term from 1987 to 1989. He had previously been a California State Assembly Member from the 22nd district, serving from 1980 to 1986. Early life Ernõ "Ernie" Könnyű was born May 17, 1937, in Tamási, Kingdom of Hungary (present-day Tamási, Hungary) to poet, professor and cartographer Leslie Konnyu and Leslie's wife, Elizabeth, a bookkeeper and owner of a home secretarial school, and is the eldest of his two late siblings Gabriela (Helen) and Zoltan (Joseph). In 1949 the 12-year-old Konnyu, together with his family, immigrated to the United States from a post-World War II refugee camp in Ampflwang, Austria. He attended parochial and public schools in Jefferson City and St. Louis, Missouri. He attended University of Maryland, College Park and received his Bachelor of Science degree from Ohio Sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrea Osvárt
Andrea Klára Osvárt (born 25 April 1979) is a Hungarian actress, film producer, and former fashion model. Personal life She was born in Budapest and grew up in Tamási, a small town in the south of Hungary. Her parents divorced when she was five. Her father is a veterinarian. She has four siblings: Judit, Roxána, András, and Márton. Osvárt attended N.2. Public School in Tamási, Zoltán Kodály Italian-Hungarian High School, and majored in Italian studies at the Faculty of Humanities of Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. She is fluent in Hungarian, English and Italian, and speaks some German and French. Career She began modeling at the age of 16 and subsequently came second in the Hungarian "Look of the Year" competition in 1996. She moved to Budapest and began modeling professionally in Europe, Asia, and North America. She has also made more than 30 television commercials. She played a small role in the film ''Spy Game'', which starred Robert Redford and Brad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
Isernhagen
Isernhagen ( Eastphalian: ''Isernhogen'') is a municipality in the district of Hanover, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated in the north-east of Hanover. According to the average income per capita it is the most affluent municipality in Lower Saxony. Bundesautobahn 7 passes through the municipality. It is adjacent to Burgwedel, Burgdorf, Lehrte, Hannover, Langenhagen und Wedemark. Division of the municipality Isernhagen consists of 7 districts: * Niedernhägener Bauerschaft (common abbreviation: NB) * Kircher Bauerschaft (common abbreviation: KB) * Farster Bauernschaft (common abbreviation: FB) * Hohenhorster Bauerschaft (common abbreviation: HB) * Altwarmbüchen * Neuwarmbüchen, including Gartenstadt Lohne * Kirchhorst, including Großhorst and Stelle Twinned with Peacehaven in East Sussex, Épinay-sous-Sénart in France, Suchy Las in Poland and Tamási in Hungary. History Name The first part of the name ''Isernhagen'' derives from the word ''Yse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Cities And Towns Of 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 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, Budapest, while th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volgodonsk
Volgodonsk ( rus, Волгодонск, p=vəlgɐˈdonsk) is a city in Rostov Oblast, Russia, located in the east of the oblast on the west bank of the Tsimlyansk Reservoir. Population: 28,000 (1970). History Volgodonsk was founded in 1950 as a small settlement for the Tsimlyansk hydroelectric dam maintenance personnel. It grew in size due to the construction of the Volga–Don Canal. On September 16, 1999 a powerful truck bomb exploded outside an apartment building, killing 17 people and injuring a further 69. It was the fifth explosion in a series of apartment bombings in Russia that killed more than 300 people. Administrative and municipal status Within the framework of administrative divisions, it is incorporated as Volgodonsk Urban Okrug—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts.Law #340-ZS As a municipal division, this administrative unit also has urban okrug status.Law #186-ZS Economy Volgodonsk is one of the economic leaders of Ros ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wurzen
Wurzen () is a town in the Leipzig district, in Saxony, Germany. It is situated on the river Mulde, here crossed by two bridges, 25 km east of Leipzig, by rail N.E. of Leipzig on the main line via Riesa to Dresden. It has a cathedral dating from the twelfth century, a castle, at one time a residence of the bishops of Meissen and later utilized as law courts, several schools, an agricultural college and as a police station including a prison. History Founded after 600 by Slavs, Wurzen is first mentioned in the act of donation from Otto I in 961 as a "Burgward" civitas vurcine. Situated in the "anderen Gau Neletici", it was a town early in the twelfth century when Herwig, bishop of Meissen, founded a Collegiate church here. In 1581 it passed to the elector of Saxony. During the Thirty Years' War (1637) it was sacked by the Swedish army and burned almost completely down. In 1768 Goethe travelled from Leipzig to Dresden and back through Wurzen. The long wait for the ferry lat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montigny-en-Gohelle
Montigny-en-Gohelle is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France. Geography Montigny-en-Gohelle is former coalmining town, nowadays a light industrial and dormitory town, east of Lens, on the D46, D39e and the N43 roads. The A21 autoroute runs straight through the commune. Population Places of interest * The church of St.Madeleine, rebuilt along with most of the town, after the First World War. Twin Towns * Hrastnik * Stollberg * Johannesburg * Tamási * Ruda Śląska Ruda Śląska (formerly ) is a city in Silesia in southern Poland, near Katowice. It is a district in the Upper Silesian Metropolitan Union, a metropolis with a population of two million. It is in the Silesian Highlands, on the Kłodnica Rive ... See also * Communes of the Pas-de-Calais department References External links Official town websiteAn unofficial town websiteWebsite of the agglomération d'Hénin-Carvin Montignyengohelle Artois ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bacău County
Bacău County () is a county ( județ) of Romania, in Western Moldavia, with its capital city at Bacău. It has one commune, Ghimeș-Făget, in Transylvania. Geography This county has a total area of . In the western part of the county there are mountains from the Eastern Carpathian group. Here, along the valleys of the Oituz River and Trotuș River, there are two important links between Moldavia and Transylvania. On the East side, the heights decrease and the lowest point can be found on the Siret River valley which crosses the county from North to South down the middle. On the East side there is the Moldavian Plateau crossed by many small rivers. Flora and fauna Bears, wolves, foxes, wild boars, and squirrels inhabit Bacău County's mountains, particularly in its rural Slănic-Moldova region; the remnants of the local deers are preserved in Mănăstirea Cașin. Neighbours *Vaslui County in the East. *Harghita County and Covasna County in the West. *Neamț County ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suchy Las
Suchy Las is a village in Poznań County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Suchy Las. It lies just north of the regional capital Poznań Poznań () is a city on the River Warta in west-central Poland, within the Greater Poland region. The city is an important cultural and business centre, and one of Poland's most populous regions with many regional customs such as Saint John ..., approximately from the city centre. The village has a population of 4,367. Its name literally means "dry forest". References Suchy Las {{Poznań-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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