Hejce is a village in
Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén 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, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia a ...
. It is one of the oldest settlements in Hungary, mentioned in records from 1009, when king
Stephen I granted it to the episcopate of
Eger. Its viniculture was already known around 1600. Count Károly Eszterházy built a palace there in the 18th century.
Hejce is remembered for the
tragedy of a Slovak AN-24 military aircraft which crashed there on January 19, 2006. The plane was carrying Slovak peacekeeping troops from Pristina in Kosovo to Košice in Slovakia. Only one of the 43 soldiers survived. The Slovak minister of defence honoured the inhabitants of the village for their selfless help in the rescue operations.
External links
Street map
Slovak plane crash leaves 42 dead - BBC NewsWeb page of Hejce (in Hungarian)
Populated places in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County
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