Szikszó ( hu, Szikszói járás) is a district in central-northern part of

Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén ( hu, Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén megye, ; sk, Boršodsko-abovsko-zemplínska) is an administrative county (Counties of Hungary, comitatus or ''megye)'' in north-eastern Hungary (commonly called "Northern Hungary"), on the bord ...

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Szikszó Szikszó is a small town in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county, Northern Hungary, from county capital Miskolc. History Szikszó was first mentioned in documents in 1280. It belonged to the estate of the Aba clan. After 1370 Aba Estates in the area b ...

'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Northern Hungary Statistical Region.

Geography

Szikszó District borders with

Encs District Encs ( hu, Encsi járás) is a district in northern part of Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County. '' Encs'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Northern Hungary Statistical Region. Geography En ...

northeast,

Szerencs District Szerencs ( hu, Szerencsi járás) is a district in central-eastern part of Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County. ''Szerencs'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Northern Hungary Statistical Regio ...

to the southeast,

Miskolc District Miskolc ( hu, Miskolci járás) is a district in central-western part of Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County. ''Miskolc'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Northern Hungary Statistical Region. ...

to the southwest,

Edelény District Edelény ( hu, Edelényi járás) is a district in northern part of Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County. ''Edelény'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Northern Hungary Statistical Region. Ge ...

to the west. The number of the inhabited places in Szikszó District is 24.

Municipalities

The district has 1

town A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares an ori ...

and 23 villages. (ordered by population, as of 1 January 2012) The bolded municipality is the city.

Demographics

In 2011, it had a population of 17,507 and the

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was 57/km².

Ethnicity

Besides the Hungarian majority, the main minorities are the Roma (approx. 3,500) and Rusyn (100). Total population (2011 census): 17,507
Ethnic groups (2011 census): Identified themselves: 20,043 persons: *

Hungarians Hungarians, also known as Magyars ( ; hu, magyarok ), are a nation and ethnic group native to Hungary () and historical Hungarian lands who share a common culture, history, ancestry, and language. The Hungarian language belongs to the Urali ...

: 16,316 (81.40%) *

Gypsies The Romani (also spelled Romany or Rromani , ), colloquially known as the Roma, are an Indo-Aryan ethnic group, traditionally nomadic itinerants. They live in Europe and Anatolia, and have diaspora populations located worldwide, with sign ...

: 3,434 (17.13%) *Others and indefinable: 293 (1.46%) Approx. 2,500 persons in Szikszó District did declare more than one ethnic group at the 2011 census.

Religion

Religious adherence in the county according to 2011 census:4.1.7.1 A népesség vallás, felekezet szerint, 2011,

' *Catholic – 9,511 ( Roman Catholicism in Hungary, Roman Catholic – 6,979;

Greek Catholic The term Greek Catholic Church can refer to a number of Eastern Catholic Churches following the Byzantine (Greek) liturgy, considered collectively or individually. The terms Greek Catholic, Greek Catholic church or Byzantine Catholic, Byzantine Ca ...

– 2,529); *

Reformed Reform is beneficial change Reform may also refer to: Media * ''Reform'' (album), a 2011 album by Jane Zhang * Reform (band), a Swedish jazz fusion group * ''Reform'' (magazine), a Christian magazine *''Reforme'' ("Reforms"), initial name of the ...

– 4,254; *

Evangelical Evangelicalism (), also called evangelical Christianity or evangelical Protestantism, is a worldwide Interdenominationalism, interdenominational movement within Protestantism, Protestant Christianity that affirms the centrality of being "bor ...

– 46; *other religions – 112; *

Non-religious Irreligion or nonreligion is the absence or rejection of religion, or indifference to it. Irreligion takes many forms, ranging from the casual and unaware to full-fledged philosophies such as atheism and agnosticism, secular humanism and anti ...

– 733; *

Atheism Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities. Less broadly, atheism is a rejection of the belief that any deities exist. In an even narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there no d ...

– 44; *''Undeclared'' – 2,807.

Gallery

File:Szikszó légifotó1.jpg,

, the ''district seat'' File:A Hernád Szentistvánbaksa alatt - panoramio (1).jpg, Hernád river near Szentistvánbaksa File:Felsővadászi Rákóczi-kastély.JPG, Rákóczi Mansion in Felsővadász File:Abaújszolnoki templom.JPG, Greek Catholic Church in Abaújszolnok

References

External links

Postal codes of the Szikszó District
Districts in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County {{Borsod-geo-stub