Bajcsy-Zsilinszky street ( hu, Bajcsy-Zsilinszky út) is a principal street in the centre of the Hungarian capital city of
Budapest
Budapest (, ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Hungary. It is the ninth-largest city in the European Union by population within city limits and the second-largest city on the Danube river; the city has an estimated population ...
. It runs north from
Deák Ferenc square to outside
Nyugati railway station. Towards its southern end it is joined by
Andrássy Avenue
The House of Andrássy is the name of a Hungarian noble family of very ancient lineage that was prominent in Hungarian history. The full family name is ''Andrássy de Csíkszentkirály et Krasznahorka''. ''Csíkszentkirály'' is a town in modern- ...
, and
Bajcsy-Zsilinszky út metro station is located at this junction.
The street is named after
Endre Bajcsy-Zsilinszky
Endre Kálmán Bajcsy-Zsilinszky (Szarvas, June 6, 1886 – Sopronkőhida, December 24, 1944), was an influential Hungarian national radical politician and an important voice in the struggle against German expansion and military policy. Execut ...
a member of the
Independent Smallholders, Agrarian Workers and Civic Party and leader of the resistance who was executed toward the end of the
Second World War
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...
.
Streets in Budapest
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