Kistarcsa () is a town in Pest County,

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. A site of the Kistarcsa concentration camp during

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. Later an internment camp of

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for political prisonersUni Linz
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History

Only a few

archaeological Archaeology or archeology is the scientific study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscap ...

excavations were held on the territory of Kistarcsa; the earliest findings are from the

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(4000–2500 BC). From this time it was always a populated area:

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, Sarmatas and Avars lived here. After the fall of the Avar Empire the

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found an underpopulated area, so they could settle down easily. Their settlement can be dated back to the 10th to 13th centuries according to the excavated area next to the cemetery of Kistarcsa.

Notable people

* Bernadett Baczkó, judoka *

Jane Haining Jane Mathison Haining (6 June 1897 – 17 July 1944) was a Scottish missionary for the Church of Scotland in Budapest, Hungary, who was recognized in 1997 by Yad Vashem in Israel as Righteous Among the Nations for having risked her life to ...

, Scottish

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missionary *

László Háry (Sir) László Háry (11 August 1890, Gyömöre – 13 February 1953, Kistarcsa) was a major general, aviator and a Commander of the First Independent Hungarian Air Force. Life During World War I, Háry started as a field pilot, f ...

, major general, aviator and a Commander of the First Independent

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* Zoltán Meszlényi, martyr bishop * József Simándy, tenor * Lajos von Sipeki-von Balás, modern pentathlete *

Krisztina Szádvári Krisztina Szádvári (born 31 October 1990) is a Hungarian people, Hungarian Team handball, handballer who plays for Gödi SE in left wing position. Achievements *Nemzeti Bajnokság I (women's handball), Nemzeti Bajnokság I: **''Silver Medal ...

, handballer

Twin towns – sister cities

Kistarcsa is twinned with: *

Beluša Beluša (german: Bellusch, hu, Bellus) is a large village and municipality in Púchov District in the Trenčín Region of north-western Slovakia. It is located in the northern parts of the Ilava Basin and is one of the largest communities of the P ...

, Slovakia *

Fanchykovo Fanchykovo (; ) is a locality in Berehove Raion of the Zakarpattia Oblast in western Ukraine. Fanchykovo is also known as Fanchykovo (Ukrainian), Fanchikovo (Russian), Fancsika (Hungarian), Fančikovo (Slovakian), Fanecsika, Fanchykove, and Fant ...

, Ukraine *

Milovice Milovice (; german: Milowitz) is a town in Nymburk District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 12,000 inhabitants. In the 20th century, the history of the town was influenced by the presence of a military base. In ...

, Czech Republic *

Radomyśl nad Sanem Radomyśl nad Sanem (until 2001 Radomyśl) is a village in Stalowa Wola County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Radomyśl nad Sanem. It lies on the San river ...

, Poland * Turia, Romania

External links

* in Hungarian

References

Populated places in Pest County {{Pest-geo-stub