Karcag () is a large
town
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Origin and use
The word "town" shares an ori ...
in
Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok 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
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of central
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 ...
.
Geography
Karcag 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 20,632 people (2011).
Transport
Karcag has its own
railway station
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, but
InterCity
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trains do not stop here.
Politics
The current mayor of Karcag is László Dobos (Fidesz-KDNP).
The local Municipal Assembly, elected at the
2019 local government elections, is made up of 12 members (1 Mayor, 8 Individual constituencies MEPs and 3 Compensation List MEPs) divided into this political parties and alliances:
Twin towns – sister cities
Karcag is
twinned with:
*
Cristuru Secuiesc
Cristuru Secuiesc (; hu, Székelykeresztúr, ) is a town in Harghita County, Romania. It lies in the Székely Land, an ethno-cultural region in eastern Transylvania. The town administers two villages:
Betești (''Betfalva''), part of Mugeni unt ...
, Romania (1990)
*
Kunszentmiklós
Kunszentmiklós (german: Sankt Niklas) is a town in Bács-Kiskun county, Hungary. The name is derived from the Cumans (Kun in Hungarian).
Twin cities
* Cristuru Secuiesc
* Blumberg
* Skorenovac
* Karcag
Karcag () is a large town in J ...
, Hungary (2009)
*
Lazdijai
Lazdijai () is a small town in Lithuania located about east of the border with Poland.
History
It was established by Sigismund II Augustus in 1570 and granted Magdeburg Rights by Sigismund III Vasa in 1587.
During World War II, Lazdijai was unde ...
, Lithuania (2004)
*
Lednice
Lednice (; german: Eisgrub) is a municipality and village in Břeclav District in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 2,100 inhabitants. It is known as part of Lednice–Valtice Cultural Landscape, a UNESCO World Heritag ...
, Czech Republic (2006)
*
Merki District
Merki ( kk, Меркі ауданы, ) is a district of Jambyl Region in south-eastern Kazakhstan
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, Kazakhstan (1998)
*
Moldava nad Bodvou
Moldava nad Bodvou ( hu, Szepsi; german: Moldau (an der Bodwa)) is a town and municipality in Košice-okolie District in the Košice Region of eastern Slovakia.
History
In historical records the town was first mentioned in 1255.
Geography
The t ...
, Slovakia (1998)
*
Schwarzheide
Schwarzheide ( dsb, Carny Gózd) is a town in the Oberspreewald-Lausitz district, in Lower Lusatia, Brandenburg, Germany. It is situated on the river Schwarze Elster, 11 km southwest of Senftenberg, 110 km south of Berlin and 40 km n ...
, Germany (2004)
*
Stara Moravica (Bačka Topola), Serbia (1994)
Notable people
* (died in 1770), the last speaker of the
Cuman language
Cuman or Kuman (also called Kipchak, Qypchaq or Polovtsian) was a Kipchak Turkic language spoken by the Cumans (Polovtsy, Folban, Vallany, Kun) and Kipchaks; the language was similar to today's various languages of the Kipchak-Cuman branch. C ...
*Colonel
Michael de Kovats
Michael Kovats de Fabriczy (often simply Michael Kovats; hu, Kováts Mihály; 1724 – May 11, 1779) was a Hungarian nobleman and cavalry officer who served in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, in which he was killed i ...
(1724–1779), the father of the US cavalry, a Hungarian hussar was born in Karcag
*
Avram Hershko
Avram Hershko ( he, אברהם הרשקו, Avraham Hershko, hu, Herskó Ferenc Ábrahám; born December 31, 1937) is a Hungarian-Israeli biochemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2004.
Biography
He was born Herskó Ferenc in Karc ...
(born 1937), Israeli biochemist and Nobel laureate in Chemistry
*
Margit Sebők (1939–2000), painter and educator
*
Kevin Varga (born 1996), footballer
*
Mihály Varga
Mihály Varga (born 26 January 1965) is a Hungarian politician, current Minister of Finance (previously Minister of National Economy) since 2013. He also served as Minister of Finance between 2001 and 2002. He has been a member of Fidesz since t ...
(born 1965), politician, since 2013 Minister of National Economy
References
External links
* in Hungarian, English, German and Italian
Populated places in Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County
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