Győrtelek is a
village in
Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county, in the
Northern Great Plain
The Northern Great Plain ( hu, Észak-Alföld) is a statistical ( NUTS 2) region of Hungary. It is part of the Great Plain and North (NUTS 1) region. The Northern Great Plain includes the counties of Hajdú-Bihar, Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok, and Sza ...
region of eastern
Hungary.
Geography
It covers an
area of and has a
population of 1,615 (2013 estimate).
Population
History
It was recorded by the name of Gyerthelek in 1477; its meaning: the property of a person called
György
György () is a Hungarian version of the name ''George''. Some notable people with this given name:
* György Alexits, as a Hungarian mathematician
* György Almásy, Hungarian asiologist, traveler, zoologist and ethnographer, father of Lászl ...
.
The
Calvinist church was built of brick in 1822.
Five Romanian nationals, including a child, died when their car (registered in
Poland) crashed in Győrtelek in the early hours of June 8, 2014. In the accident, the car veered to the opposite lane of the road and crashed frontally with a bus and then with a van (registered in
Harghita County). Four people in the bus and one travelling in the van suffered light injuries.
References
Populated places in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County
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