Vasmegyer is a

village A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...

in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg 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 ...

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of eastern

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Geography

It covers an

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of and has a

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of 1621 people (2006).

History

The settlement and its surroundings have been inhabited since ancient times, and people have lived in the area since the Stone Age, as evidenced by the finds found here. According to tradition, the ancient settlement was named after the leader of Megyer. The name of the settlement was first mentioned by the diplomatic archives in 1452 as Meger, and then in the data of the national archives of the foundry it appears in 1462 in the form of Felmegyer. The charter of the archives of the Kállay family, dated 1466, already mentioned it as Vas-Megyer. The owners of the settlement were members of the Vas family in the mid-1300s. In 1385, Queen Mary donated the estate of Miklós Vas, who died without a successor, to Sebestén Csaholyi from the Csaholyi family. In 1446 the Stritey family was the landlord of the settlement, and in the 18th century the Megyeri, Oláhok and Vécseyek. At the beginning of the 20th century it was owned by Géza Megyery, György Bónis and Antal Deutsch. According to tradition, there was once a cluster on the border of Vasmegyer, in the part called Apáti dűlő, the ruins of which date back to the 20th century. They were also visible at the beginning of the 19th century, and old money was found among these ruins several times.

Economy

Vasmegyer Vasmegyer is a village in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county, in the Northern Great Plain region of eastern Hungary. Geography It covers an area of and has a population Population typically refers to the number of people in a single area, ...

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