Nagymaros (german: Großmarosch, sk, Veľká Maruša) is a town in Pest county,

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Etymology

The name comes from ''Maroš'', the Slavic form of

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. Nagymaros—"Greater Maros" ( Hungarian). The first written mention is ''Morus'' (1257).

Notable people

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 *

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 *

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 *

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: *

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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, Germany * Velyki Heivtsi, Ukraine

References

External links

* in Hungarian
Street map
Populated places in Pest County {{Pest-geo-stub