Törökszentmiklós is a town in Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok county, in the

Northern Great Plain The Northern Great Plain ( hu, Észak-Alföld) is a statistical ( NUTS 2) region of Hungary. It is part of the Great Plain and North (NUTS 1) region. The Northern Great Plain includes the counties of Hajdú-Bihar, Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok, and Sza ...

region of central

Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the 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 a ...

. It is the third-largest settlement in the county.

Geography

It covers an area of and has a population of 23,145 (2002).

History

The settlement was first mentioned (as ''Zenthmyclos'') in charters of King Zsigmond in 1399. In 1552 the castle of Balaszentmiklós fell under the Turkish siege. ("Törok" is Hungarian for "Turkish".) In 1685 it was destroyed. In 1738 the settlement, then known as Török Szent Miklós, became a

market town A market town is a settlement most common in Europe that obtained by custom or royal charter, in the Middle Ages, a market right, which allowed it to host a regular market; this distinguished it from a village or city. In Britain, small rural ...

Politics

Between the 1990s and 2014 local politics were dominated by

Fidesz Fidesz – Hungarian Civic Alliance (; hu, Fidesz – Magyar Polgári Szövetség) is a right-wing populist and national-conservative political party in Hungary, led by Viktor Orbán. It was formed in 1988 under the name of Alliance of Young ...

and Fidesz-supporting independent groups, but

Jobbik The Movement for a Better Hungary ( hu, Jobbik Magyarországért Mozgalom), commonly known as Jobbik (), is a conservative political party in Hungary. Originating with radical and nationalist roots, at its beginnings, the party described itself ...

became the majority party in the Municipal Assembly at the

2014 Hungarian local elections Local elections were held in Hungary on October 12, 2014. It was the first local election according to the new Constitution of Hungary which went into force on 1 January 2012. The new electoral law entered into force that day. Changes compared t ...

. The current mayor of Törökszentmiklós is Imre Markót (Our Home Szentmiklós). The local Municipal Assembly, elected at the

2019 Hungarian local elections Hungarian local elections were held in Hungary on 13 October 2019. Mayors and assembly members were elected for a term of 5 years. Electoral system * Mayors of towns, cities, the districts of Budapest and Budapest itself are directly elected in ...

, is made up of 11 members (1 mayor, 7 individual constituency MEPs and 3 compensation list MEPs) divided between these political parties and alliances:

Sport

The

association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

club,

Törökszentmiklósi FC A Törökszentmiklósi FC más néven a TFC jelenleg a magyar bajnokság 4. osztályában játszik.A TFC Magyarországon belül is Jász-Nagykun vármegyében található.A TFC-hez közel már 100 gyerek jár edzésre.Törökszentmiklóson kezdte ...

, is based in the town.

Twin towns – sister cities

Törökszentmiklós is twinned with: *

Lendava Lendava (; formerly ''Dolnja Lendava'', in older sources also ''Dolenja Lendava''; hu, Lendva, formerly ''Alsólendva''; german: Lindau, formerly ''Unter-Limbach'') is a town in Slovenia in the region of Prekmurje. It is the seat of the Municipa ...

, Slovenia *

Nevetlenfolu Nevetlenfolu ( uk, Неветленфолу, hu, Nevetlenfalu, rue, Неветленфолу) is a village in Berehove Raion (district; until 2020, Vynohradiv Raion) in Zakarpattia Oblast of Ukraine as one of its western regions. Its name in ...

, Ukraine *

Ryglice Ryglice is a town in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Tarnów County, the seat of the urban-rural gmina Ryglice. It is located about from Tarnów, near the town of Tuchów, and had town privileges in 1824–1934, and from 2001. Between 1975 and 1 ...

, Poland *

Senta Senta ( sr-cyrl, Сента, ; Hungarian: ''Zenta'', ; Romanian: ''Zenta'') is a town and municipality located in the North Banat District of the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. It is situated on the bank of the Tisa river in the ge ...

, Serbia *

Sic The Latin adverb ''sic'' (; "thus", "just as"; in full: , "thus was it written") inserted after a quoted word or passage indicates that the quoted matter has been transcribed or translated exactly as found in the source text, complete with any e ...

, Romania

References

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* in Hungarian * Populated places in Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County {{Jasz-geo-stub