Kisbér (german: Beer) is a town 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 ...
, in
Komárom-Esztergom county. It is the
administrative centre of
Kisbér District. The town was first mentioned in 1277.
Royal Stud
Kisber was home to the Imperial-Royal Stud where a
Thoroughbred
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racehorse named for the town was bred under the supervision of Stud's manager, Count Zoest. Foaled in 1873,
Kisber raced in
England
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where in 1876 he won that country's most prestigious race,
The Derby. He was then sent to
Paris
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where he won
France's most important race, the
Grand Prix de Paris
The Grand Prix de Paris is a Group 1 flat horse race in France open to three-year-old thoroughbred colts and fillies. It is run at Longchamp over a distance of 2,400 metres (about 1½ miles), and i ...
.
Twin towns — sister cities
Kisbér is
twinned with:
*
Câmpia Turzii
Câmpia Turzii (; german: Jerischmarkt; hu, Aranyosgyéres) is a municipality in Cluj County, Transylvania, Romania, which was formed in 1925 by the union of two villages, Ghiriș (''Aranyosgyéres'') and Sâncrai (''Szentkirály''). It was de ...
, Romania
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Eslohe
Eslohe is a municipality in the Hochsauerland district, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Geography
Eslohe is situated approximately 25 km south-west of Meschede.
Neighbouring municipalities
* Finnentrop
* Lennestadt
* Meschede
* Schm ...
, Germany
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Kolárovo
Kolárovo (before 1948: ''Guta''; hu, Gúta or earlier ''Gutta'') is a town in the south of Slovakia near the town of Komárno. It is an agricultural center with 11,000 inhabitants.
Basic information
The town of Kolárovo is located in the Pod ...
, Slovakia
*
Vodňany
Vodňany (; german: Wodnian) is a town in Strakonice District in the South Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 6,800 inhabitants. The historic town centre is well preserved and is protected by law as an urban monument zone, Vodňan ...
, Czech Republic
People
*
Lipót Baumhorn
Lipót Baumhorn ( hu, Baumhorn Lipót, german: Leopold Baumhorn, 28 December 1860, Kisbér – 8 July 1932, Kisbér) was a Hungarian architect of Jewish heritage, the most influential Hungarian synagogue architect in the first half of the 20th ...
, architect
References
External links
* in Hungarian and English
Populated places in Komárom-Esztergom County
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