Martfű is a
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
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.
Industry
The town is dominated by light industry, including the following:
* Tisza Shoe Factory: Though designed prior to the outbreak of war, only in 1941-42 a factory was established by the Czechoslovak businessman
Jan Antonin Bata, whose organization was based in
Zlín
Zlín (in 1949–1989 Gottwaldov; ; german: Zlin) is a city in the Czech Republic. It has about 73,000 inhabitants. It is the seat of the Zlín Region and it lies on the Dřevnice river. It is known as an industrial centre. The development of the ...
, Czech Republic. The resulting factory complex and industrial town was built in Martfű, Hungary. The Hungarian shoe company called Cikta. During the decades of the
Kádár era
Tisza Cipő became the country's largest shoe manufacturer.
* Brewery: 1985, built by the surrounding businesses.
* Vegetable Oil Factory: built between 1976 and 1980. Primarily grown in the Great Plains sunflower, canola and soybean processing is carried out.
* Tisza Ipartelep plants: various industrial plants in the industrial and service center.
Martfű Monster
The town is infamous for serial killer
Péter Kovács who is known as Martfű Monster.
International relations
Martfű is
twinned with:
Martfű twinning
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* Tuchów
Tuchów is a town in Tarnów County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland, with a population of 6,476 (2004). It lies on the ''Biała'' river, at the height of above sea level. The distance to Kraków is , and to the border with Slovakia, approxim ...
, Poland; since 1999
* Tăuții-Măgherăuș
Tăuții-Măgherăuș ( hu, Miszmogyorós) is a town in Maramureș County, Romania. The town administers six villages: Băița (''Láposbánya''), Bozânta Mare (''Nagybozinta''), Bușag (''Buság''), Merișor, Nistru (''Miszbánya'') and Ulmoasa ...
''(Misztótfalu)'', Romania; since 2006
Gallery
File:Martfű légifotó1.jpg, Aerial photography of Martfű
File:Martfu sign rovas script.jpg, Martfű name written in Szekely-Hungarian script and Latin letters.
Geography
It covers an area
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of and has a population
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of 7366 people (2002).
References
External links
* in Hungarian and English
Populated places in Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County
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