Nagykőrös is a town in
Pest County,
Hungary
Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the ...
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János Arany
János Arany (; archaic English: John Arany; 2 March 1817 – 22 October 1882) was a Hungarian poet, writer, translator and journalist. He is often said to be the "Shakespeare of ballads" – he wrote more than 102 ballads that have been transl ...
taught there from about 1851, and a local museum is named for him.
Notable people
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Szabolcs Czira (b. 1951), politician
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Frigyes Hegedűs (1920–2008), pentathlete
*István Kecskés (b. 1980), boxer
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Mór Réthy (1846–1925), mathematician
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János Zatykó (b. 1948), agrarian engineer and politician
Twin towns — sister cities
Nagykőrös is
twinned with:
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Castrocaro Terme e Terra del Sole, Italy
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Espelkamp, Germany
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Haaksbergen
Haaksbergen () is a Municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality and a town in the eastern Netherlands, in the province of Overijssel, in the Twente region.
The ''Buurserbeek'' flows through the municipality of Haaksbergen.
Population centre ...
, Netherlands
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Reghin
Reghin (; hu, Szászrégen, or ; german: (Sächsisch) Regen) is a city in Mureș County, Transylvania, central Romania, on the Mureș River. As of 2011, it had a population of 33,281.Rezultatele finale ale Recensământului din 2011:
Locat ...
, Romania
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Salonta
Salonta (; hu, Nagyszalonta, italic=no, colloquially , ; ger, Grosssalontha, italic=no; tr, Salanta, italic=no) is a city in Bihor County, in the geographical region of Crișana, north-western Romania, near the Hungarian border.
Population
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, Romania
References
External links
* in Hungarian
Street map
Populated places in Pest County
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