Magyarbánhegyes is a village in
Békés County
Békés (, , ) is an administrative division (county or ''vármegye'') in south-eastern Hungary, on the border with Romania. It shares borders with the Hungarian counties Csongrád-Csanád, Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok, and Hajdú-Bihar. The capital ...
, in the
Southern Great Plain
The Southern Great Plain ( ) is a statistical ( NUTS 2) region of Hungary. It is part of Great Plain and North (NUTS 1) region. The Southern Great Plain includes the counties of Bács-Kiskun, Békés, and Csongrád-Csanád. The region is in the ...
region of south-east
Hungary
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.
In the 19th century, a small Jewish community lived in the village, many of whose members were murdered in the
Holocaust
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, also the village also has an old
Jewish cemetery
A Jewish cemetery ( ''beit almin'' or ''beit kvarot'') is a cemetery where Jews are buried in keeping with Halakha, Jewish tradition. Cemeteries are referred to in several different ways in Hebrew, including ''beit kevarot'' (house of s ...
,
Geography
It covers an area of 36.56 km² and has a population of 2691 people (2001).
This source shows this place as Magyar-Banhegyes, Austria-Hungary as place of invention pg 798 in 1888
[Bibliographic information
Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office
Title Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office
Author United States Patent Office
Publisher U.S. Patent Office., 1895
Original from the University of Wisconsin – Madison
Digitized Jan 9, 2013
]
References
Populated places in Békés County
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