Nagykáta is a town in
,
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 ...
, about from Budapest.
Connections
Express trains take 47 minutes to
Budapest Keleti railway station
Budapest Keleti (Eastern) station ( hu, Keleti pályaudvar) is the main international and inter-city railway terminal in Budapest, Hungary.
The station stands where Rákóczi út splits to become Kerepesi Avenue and Thököly Avenue. Keleti ...
from Nagykáta and stopping trains about 65 minutes.
History
The history of Nagykáta dates back to the 12th century,
when the Pest county branch of the Káta family settled
in the region.
On the outskirts of Nagykáta, at a place called Kenderhalom,
can be found the remains of a village which was the
predecessor of Nagykáta at the time of the
Árpád dynasty
The Árpád dynasty, consisted of the members of the royal House of Árpád (), also known as Árpáds ( hu, Árpádok, hr, Arpadovići). They were the ruling dynasty of the Principality of Hungary in the 9th and 10th centuries and of the King ...
.
The Regestrum of Várad mentions the name of the village as hu, Káta in 1221. In the 15th and 16th centuries the name of Nagykáta appears as in several documents. The name ''Nagykáta'' appears first at the beginning of the 17th century.
Although the village was destroyed several times under the
Turkish
occupation of Hungary, it was always revived. The Káthay family were unable keep up with so many setbacks and could not survive the struggle. Heirless Ferenc Káthay had to sell his remaining estates – even Csekekáta – to Miklós
Keglevich in 1663.
When
Buda was reoccupied Nagykáta was also marked for destruction, and it did not appear in
the official registers until 1665, but from 1696 the village had an ordained priest again, and the registration of births, marriages death began.
Twin towns – sister cities
Nagykáta is
twinned with:
*
Alfonsine, Italy
*
Negotino
Negotino ( mk, Неготино, ) is a town in North Macedonia, the seat of the Negotino Municipality. Its population is about 13,000.
Geography
Negotino is located on the right side of the river Vardar.
It is about above sea level.
Negotino ...
, North Macedonia
*
Ozun
Ozun ( hu, Uzon, Hungarian pronunciation: ) is a commune in Covasna County, Transylvania, Romania composed of seven villages:
*Bicfalău / Bikfalva
*Lisnău / Lisznyó
*Lisnău-Vale / Lisznyópatak
*Lunca Ozunului / Vesszőstelep
*Măgheruș / Sep ...
, Romania
Gallery
File:Nagykáta2.jpg
File:Clarion Hungary, aerial, Nagykáta.jpg
References
External links
* in Hungarian
Street map
Populated places in Pest County
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