Őrbottyán is a town in Pest county,

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Name

'' Bottyán'' is an old Hungarian given name for boys, meaning mace.János Ladó - Ágnes Bíró: Magyar utónévkönyv ("Book of Hungarian given names"), Vince Kiadó, Budapest, 2005, Prefix ''Őr'' literally means "guard" in Hungarian and refers to the nearby hill ''Őrhegy'', which was a

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in the

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Geography

Őrbottyán lies from the center of

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at the foot of Gödöllő Hills, in the north-eastern sector of the

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. It lies km from M0, km from M2 and from M3 motorway.

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Vác Vác (; german: Waitzen; sk, Vacov; yi, ווייצען) is a town in Pest county in Hungary with approximately 35,000 inhabitants. The archaic spelling of the name is ''Vácz''. Location Vác is located north of Budapest on the eastern bank o ...

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line crosses the town.

History

Őrbottyán was created in 1970 with the unification of two small villages, named ''Őrszentmiklós'' and ''Vácbottyán''.Magyarország történeti statisztikai helységnévtára (Historical Gazetteer of Hungary), 15. Pest megye (Pest County), Központi Statisztikai Hivatal (Hungarian Central Statistical Office), Budapest, 2000, pp. 146/205 Őrszentmiklós first mentioned in 1344 as ''villa Sancti Nicolai'' (

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for Village of

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) and in 1390 as ''Zenth Myklos'' ( Hungarian for Saint Nicholas). Vácbottyán first mentioned in 1332 as ''Botuna'' (old version of Bottyán) and in 1376 as ''Bathyan''. According to the Hungarian Royal Treasury, the region was inhabited by ethnic

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in 1495.Károly Kocsis (DSc, University of Miskolc) – Zsolt Bottlik (PhD, Budapest University) – Patrik Tátrai: Etnikai térfolyamatok a Kárpát-medence határon túli régióiban, Magyar Tudományos Akadémia (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) – Földrajtudományi Kutatóintézet (Academy of Geographical Studies); Budapest; 2006.; , CD Atlas The area became devastated due to the

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in the 17th century, when Christians liberated the area in the 1680s they found only a few family in Őrszentmiklós, Vácbottyán was uninhabited. Őrszentmiklós resettled by

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and

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Hungarians, while Vácbottyán was rebuilt by

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and Roman Catholic Hungarians in the 18th century. Later Slovaks adopted Hungarian language and they assimilated into the Hungarian majority.

Demographics

According to the 2011 census the total population of Őrbottyán was 7,102, of whom there were 6,159 (86.7%)

, 44 (0.6%)

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and 40 (0.6%)

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, while 937 people (13.2%) did not declare their ethnicity. Excluding these people Hungarians made up 99.9% of the total population. In Hungary people can declare more than one ethnicity, so some people declared Hungarian and a minority one together. In 2011 there were 1,903 (26.8%)

, 1,063 (15.0%)

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(

) and 140 (2.0%)

in Őrbottyán. 1,351 people (19.0%) were

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and 187 (2.6%)

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, while 2,133 people (30.0%) did not declare their religion. In 2011 there were 2,622 dwellings (houses) in Őrbottyán with an average

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of 92 m², which is higher than the national average (77 m²). The average gross personal income for an employee was 1,947,000 HUF in 2011, higher than the national average (1,869,000 HUF).

References

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