Sárospatak ( hu, Sárospataki járás) is a district in north-eastern 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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Sárospatak Sárospatak (german: Potok am Bodroch; la, Potamopolis; sk, Šarišský Potok or ; ) is a town in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County, northern Hungary. It lies northeast from Miskolc, in the Bodrog river valley. The town, often called simply ''Pat ...

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

Geography

Sárospatak District borders with Sátoraljaújhely District to the north, Cigánd District to the east,

Ibrány District Ibrány ( hu, Ibrányi járás) is a district in north-western part of Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County. ''Ibrány'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Northern Great Plain Statistical Regio ...

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Nyíregyháza District Nyíregyháza ( hu, Nyíregyházi járás) is a district in western part of Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County. ''Nyíregyháza'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Northern Great Plain Statis ...

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Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg ( hu, Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg megye, ) is an administrative county (Hungarian: ''megye'') in north-eastern Hungary, bordering Slovakia (Košice Region), Ukraine (Zakarpattia Oblast), and Romania ( Bihor and Satu Mare coun ...

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Tokaj District Tokaj ( hu, Tokaji járás) is a district in eastern part of Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County. ''Tokaj'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Northern Hungary Statistical Region. Geography T ...

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Gönc District Gönc ( hu, Gönci járás) is a district in north-eastern part of Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County. '' Gönc'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Northern Hungary Statistical Region. Geogr ...

to the west. The number of the inhabited places in Sárospatak District is 16.

Municipalities

The district has 1

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and 15 villages. (ordered by population, as of 1 January 2012) The bolded municipality is the city.

Demographics

In 2011, it had a population of 24,946 and the

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was 52/km².

Ethnicity

Besides the Hungarian majority, the main minorities are the Roma (approx. 1,500), German (650) and Rusyn (350). Total population (2011 census): 24,946
Ethnic groups (2011 census): Identified themselves: 23,789 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 ...

: 21,009 (88.31%) *

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 ...

: 1,502 (6.31%) *

Germans , native_name_lang = de , region1 = , pop1 = 72,650,269 , region2 = , pop2 = 534,000 , region3 = , pop3 = 157,000 3,322,405 , region4 = , pop4 = ...

: 629 (2.64%) *

Rusyns Rusyns (), also known as Carpatho-Rusyns (), or Rusnaks (), are an East Slavs, East Slavic ethnic group from the Carpathian Rus', Eastern Carpathians in Central Europe. They speak Rusyn language, Rusyn, an East Slavic languages, East Slavi ...

: 359 (1.51%) *Others and indefinable: 290 (1.22%) Approx. 1,000 persons in Sárospatak District did not declare their 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 – 11,714 ( Roman Catholicism in Hungary, Roman Catholic – 8,376;

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 ...

– 3,331); * Reformed – 5,600; *

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 ...

– 36; *other religions – 332; *

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 ...

– 1,009; *

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 ...

– 100; *''Undeclared'' – 6,155.

Gallery

File:Sárospatak - Castle.jpg, Sárospatak Castle File:Háromhuta, Óhuta látképe.JPG, Aerial view of Háromhuta (Óhuta) File:Meczner kastély (Művelődési ház) - Makkoshotyka, 2014.06.19 (1).JPG, Meczner Mansion in Makkoshotyka File:Sárospatak - Vártemplom - panoramio.jpg, Castle Church in Sárospatak

References

External links

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