Aszaló is a village in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county,

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. In 2013, it had 1,860 inhabitants.

Location

It is located 18 km northeast of Miskolc in the centre of Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County, on the west bank of the Hornád River which forms outside the eastern border of the village. The river

Bársonyos Bársonyos is a village in Komárom-Esztergom 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 t ...

traverses the village from north to south. Access It is accessible by public transport by Main Road 3 or by train on the Miskolc-Hidasnémeti railway line. Surrounding settlements Csobád (9 km), Halmaj (about 6 km), Kazhmar (9 km), and the nearest town

Szikszó Szikszó is a small town in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county, Northern Hungary, from county capital Miskolc. History Szikszó was first mentioned in documents in 1280. It belonged to the estate of the Aba clan. After 1370 Aba Estates in the area b ...

(5 km).

History

Its first mention was from 1275, under the name of ''Ozalou''. Already in the

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, there were significant wine production, and its horses and beekeepers were renowned in the area. In 1553, Ferdinand I plundered it as part of the Little War in Hungary. Throughout history, it has alternatively been part of the counties of

Borsod Borsod was an administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. The capital of the county was Miskolc. After World War II, the county was merged with the Hungarian parts of Abaúj-Torna County and Zemplén counties to form Borsod-Aba� ...

or Abaúj until the two merged after

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to form Borsod-Abauj-Zemplen. By the second half of the 16th century, there were schools for both boys and girls in Aszaló. In 1824 and 1854, fires destroyed the majority of the village, but it was rebuilt both times. In the

19th century The 19th (nineteenth) century began on 1 January 1801 ( MDCCCI), and ended on 31 December 1900 ( MCM). The 19th century was the ninth century of the 2nd millennium. The 19th century was characterized by vast social upheaval. Slavery was abolis ...

, a small Jewish community lived in the village, many of whose members were murdered in the

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. In the 1960s, an air defense artillery missile base and a military base were built in the area, but they were closed in the 1980s. In the 2011 census, 80% of the population were Hungarian and 20% were of

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origin.

Politics

The last local elections were held on October 3, 2010, where the voter turnout was 832 people (59.43%.)

Sights

* A Late Baroque, Roman Catholic church from the 1770s . * A

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from the late 18th century.

References

External links

Street map
Populated places in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County Hungary geography articles needing translation from French Wikipedia Jewish communities destroyed in the Holocaust {{Borsod-geo-stub