Bátonyterenye is a town in
Nógrád
Nógrád ( sk, Novohrad; german: Neuburg) is a village in Nógrád 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, ...
county, in Northern
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 to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the ...
. The town is the part of the
Novohrad-Nógrád Geopark.
Bátonyterenye was created in 1984 by the unification of the three villages of ''
Nagybátony'', ''
Kisterenye'', and ''
Szúpatak''. The new settlement became a town in 1989. Bátonyterenye was described as a typical socialist mining city.
Twin towns – sister cities
Bátonyterenye is
twinned with:
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Fiľakovo
Fiľakovo (; hu, Fülek, german: Fülleck, tr, Filek) is a town in the Banská Bystrica Region of south-central Slovakia. Historically it was located in Nógrád County, as part of the Nógrád, Novohrad, "Newcastle" region.
Geography
It is loc ...
, Slovakia
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Giresun, Turkey
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Jirkov
Jirkov (; german: Görkau) is a town in Chomutov District in the Ústí nad Labem Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 19,000 inhabitants. Jirkov creates a conurbation with Chomutov.
Administrative parts
Town parts and villages of Březenec ...
, Czech Republic
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Kobylnica, Poland
References
External links
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Official websitein Hungarian and English
Street mapNovohrad-Nógrád UNESCO Global Geopark
Populated places in Nógrád County
Socialist planned cities
Planned cities in Hungary
Novohrad-Nógrád UNESCO Global Geopark
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