Gávavencsellő is a
village
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...
in
Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county, in the Northern Great Plain
region
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of eastern
Hungary
Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia a ...
. The village was established in 1971 by merging the former separate villages of
Gáva and
Vencsellő.
Geography
It covers an
area
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A shape or figure is a graphics, graphical representation of an obje ...
of and has a
population
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of 3938 people (2001).
History
In 1898 Rabbi Tzvi Hirsh
Friedlander became the village chief rabbi; until he got promoted as the chief rabbi of
Liska, When his father Rabbi Chaim Friedlander died in 1906. Rav Tzvi Hirsh established a
yeshiva
A yeshiva (; he, ישיבה, , sitting; pl. , or ) is a traditional Jewish educational institution focused on the study of Rabbinic literature, primarily the Talmud and halacha (Jewish law), while Torah and Jewish philosophy are s ...
, where about 40-60 students learned.
Rabbi Chaim said about his son becoming chief rabbi of Gava: "He is rav of Gava (=the city), but gava he does not possess".
Notable residents
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András Kozák
András Kozák (23 February 1943 – 24 February 2005) was a Hungarian film actor. He appeared in more than seventy films from 1962 to 2005.
Selected filmography
References
External links
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1943 births
200 ...
, film actor
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László Karakó
Dr. László Karakó (born 27 March 1955) is a Hungarian politician, member of the National Assembly (MP) for Tiszavasvári (Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County Constituency III) between 2010 and 2014. Formerly he also served as Member of Parliament ...
, politician
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Theodore S. Weiss
Theodore S. Weiss (September 17, 1927 – September 14, 1992) was an American Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party politician who served in the United States House of Representatives for New York (state), New York from 1977 until hi ...
, politician
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László Vágner
László Vágner (born December 24, 1955 in Gávavencsellő) is a Hungary, Hungarian former football (soccer), football referee.
He refereed two matches in the 1998 FIFA World Cup in France: Scotland national football team, Scotland v Norway nat ...
, footballer
Populated places in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County
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