Nagymaros (german: Großmarosch, sk, Veľká Maruša) is a town in
Pest county,
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 ...
.
Etymology
The name comes from ''Maroš'', the Slavic form of
Marianus Marianus is a male name, formerly an Ancient Roman family name, derived from Marius. Marianus may refer to:
*Marianus of Auxerre (died 462 or 473), French monk and saint
* Marianus Scotus of Mainz (1028–1082 or -83), otherwise Máel Brigte (Devo ...
. Nagymaros—"Greater Maros" (
Hungarian). The first written mention is ''Morus'' (1257).
Notable people
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György Szabados
György Szabados (13 July 1939 – 10 June 2011) was a Hungarian jazz pianist, and is sometimes referred to as the "father" or "unofficial king" of the Hungarian free jazz movement since the 1960s.
Biography
Szabados was born in Budapest. ...
(1939–2011), jazz musician
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Mihály Nagymarosi
Mihály Nagymarosi (6 October 1919 in Nagymaros – 7 September 2002 in Nagymaros) was a Hungarian football midfielder, who played for Újpest FC, as well as representing 13 times the Hungarian national football team
The Hungary natio ...
(1919–2002), footballer
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László Szalma
László Szalma (born 27 October 1957) is a retired Hungarian long jumper. He won six medals at the European Indoor Championships—two gold, three silver and one bronze—and finished fourth at the 1980 Olympic Games and the 1983 Wor ...
(b. 1957), long jumper
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Tibor Gánti
Tibor Gánti (10 September 1933 – 15 April 2009) was a Hungarian theoretical biologist and biochemist, who is best known for his theory of the chemoton, a model for defining the minimal nature of life. He taught industrial biochemistry at F ...
(1933–2009), biochemist
Twin towns – sister cities
Nagymaros is
twinned with:
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Gabčíkovo
Gabčíkovo ( hu, Bős, ) is a town and municipality in the Dunajská Streda District, in the Trnava Region of southwestern Slovakia. It has 5,232 inhabitants of whom approximately 80% are Hungarians. After the Communist takeover of Czechoslovak ...
, Slovakia
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Grevesmühlen
Grevesmühlen () is a municipality in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, northern Germany. It was the seat of the Nordwestmecklenburg district until 2011, when Wismar became the seat. It is situated 33 km east of Lübeck, and 29 km northwest of Sch ...
, Germany
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Velyki Heivtsi, Ukraine
References
External links
* in Hungarian
Street map
Populated places in Pest County
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