Nyírbogát is a village in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county, in the

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region of eastern Hungary.

Geography

It covers an area of and, in 2015, had a population of 3105.

History

The village has been the site of human habitation since the

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. Its name first appears in writing in 1310, as the name of a local noble. Its earliest landowners were members of the

Kállay family Kállay family is a Hungarian noble family. The family name derived from their estates at Nagy-Kalló, in Szabolcs, and they claimed descent from the Hungarian Balogh-Semjén genus (clan), which colonized the counties of Borsod, Szabolcs, and S ...

, who held titles to the village's land until the end of the 1300s.

Demographics

As of 2022, the village is 94% Hungarian, 2.8% Gypsy, and 1.1% of non-European origin. The population is 34.6%

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, 20.3% Greek Catholic, 10% Roman Catholic, and 3.8% nondenominational.

References

Populated places in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County {{Szabolcs-geo-stub