Magyarbánhegyes 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 ...

Békés County Békés (, , ro, Județul Bichiș) is an administrative division (county or ''megye'') in south-eastern Hungary, on the border with Romania. It shares borders with the Hungarian counties Csongrád, Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok, and Hajdú-Bihar. The ...

, in the

Southern Great Plain The Southern Great Plain ( hu, Dél-Alföld) is a statistical ( NUTS 2) region of Hungary. It is part of Great Plain and North (NUTS 1) region. The Southern Great Plain includes three counties: * Bács-Kiskun * Békés * Csongrád-Csanád See ...

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of south-east

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. In the

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, a small Jewish community lived in the village, many of whose members were murdered in the

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, also the village also has an old

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Geography

It covers an

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of 36.56 km² and has a

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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 Jewish communities destroyed in the Holocaust {{Bekes-geo-stub