Rudabánya is a town in
Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county,
Hungary
Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning much of the Pannonian Basin, 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 and ...
.
The town territory was the location of the discovery of a
hominid
The Hominidae (), whose members are known as the great apes or hominids (), are a taxonomic family of primates that includes eight extant species in four genera: '' Pongo'' (the Bornean, Sumatran and Tapanuli orangutan); '' Gorilla'' (the ...
from 12 million years ago, ''
Dryopithecus brancoi'' (1969).
International relations
Rudabánya is
twinned with:
*
Dobšiná
Dobšiná (; ; Latin: ''Dobsinium'') is a small town in the Slovak Ore Mountains along the Slaná River. For 500 years it was a small but prosperous mining village populated by ethnic Germans within the Kingdom of Hungary; today it is a Slovaks, ...
, Slovakia (2011)
*
Borsec, Romania (2012)
External links
* in Hungarian, English and German
Street map
Aerial photographs of Rudabánya
Populated places in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County
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