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Szob
Szob (german: Zopp an der Donau) is a town in Pest county, Central Hungary, Hungary. It is just south and east of the Slovak border on the north bank of the Danube. Szob is on a major electrified rail connection from Bratislava and a major railway border crossing into Hungary. The border is located between Szob and Štúrovo. On 21 December 2007, all border controls ceased as Hungary and Slovakia became part of the Schengen Area. Szob is known to Americans for its forced-labor camp which held former US Congressman Tom Lantos, during much of World War II. List of Notable people from Szob * Gábor Demjén (1986 - ), footballer for Abahani Limited. * László Antal (1930 - 1993), linguist. * Gudbrand Gregersen de Saág (1824 – 24 December 1910), Norwegian-born Norwegian- Hungarian bridge engineer. Gallery File:Hungary szob.jpg, Pre-Schengen passport stamp from Szob. File:Ipoy River from Szob railway bridge.JPG, River Ipoly at Szob File:On the boat to Szob.jpg, The River Danu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Szob District
Szob ( hu, Szobi járás) is a district in northern part of Pest County. ''Szob'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Central Hungary Statistical Region. Geography Szob District borders with the Slovakian region of Nitra to the north and west, Balassagyarmat District, Rétság District ''(Nógrád County)'' and Vác District to the east, Szentendre District to the south, Esztergom District ''(Komárom-Esztergom County)'' to the southwest. The number of the inhabited places in Szob District is 17. Municipalities The district has 2 towns and 15 villages. The bolded municipalities are cities. Demographics In 2011, it had a population of 24,875 and the population density was 57/km². Ethnicity Besides the Hungarian majority, the main minorities are the German (approx. 900), Roma (500) and Slovak (100). Total population (2011 census): 24,875 Ethnic groups (2011 census): Identified themselves: 23,598 persons: *Hung ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gábor Demjén
Gábor Demjén (born 1 March 1986 in Szob) is a Hungarian footballer who currently plays for Abahani Limited. Career Demjén started his career as a trainee in the youth team of Újpest FC. Later on, he decided to leave the club for the Romanian second division club CF Liberty Salonta in order to gain experience. In 2005, he decided to move with the chairman of the Romanian club Marius Vizer to the Hungarian first division outfit FC Sopron. After two years of success with the club, he moved on to the Nemzeti Bajnokság I treble champion Debreceni VSC in the 2007–08 season where he managed to win the Hungarian Cup. International career In the 2002–03 season, he was a member of the Hungarian national under-17 football team that reached the group stage of the 2003 UEFA European Under-17 Football Championship in Portugal. Honours ;Debreceni VSC * Nemzeti Bajnokság I The Nemzeti Bajnokság (, "National Championship"), also known as NB I, is the top level of the Hunga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gudbrand Gregersen De Saág
Gudbrand Gregersen de Saág (born Gudbrand Gregersen; hu, saági Gregersen Guilbrand; 17 April 1824 – 24 December 1910) was a Norwegian-born Hungarian bridge engineer, architect and member of the Hungarian nobility since 1884. Biography Gregersen was born on 17 April 1824 to farmer Nils Gregersen (1804–1868) and Anne Trulsdatter (1803–1838) in Modum, Norway. A young man and a crafter, Gregersen came to Budapest, Habsburg Empire in the 1850s, where he established a company within general contracting. After a few years, the company had become one of the leading in the Kingdom. Living in the town Szob, near to Budapest, Gregersen was married with Aloyzia (Luise) Sümegh (1836–1906), a daughter of Josef Sümegh and Katharina Stitz. They had 19 children together, of whom seven died as infants. Gregersen designed the Elisabeth Bridge between the two parts of the city of Komárom, Austria-Hungary (today between the cities of Komárom, Hungary and Komárno, Slovakia. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
László Antal
László Antal (25 June 1930 – January 1993) was a Hungarian linguist, structuralist, Doctor of Science (1981), and Professor of Linguistics. He was considered the sole representative of structural linguistics in America in Hungary. He adapted American structuralism to the Hungarian language. He was a lone wolf in Hungarian linguistics. Life Antal was born in Szob, Hungary. In 1962 he was awarded a Ford Scholarship to the United States in the academic years of 1964–1965. He was a visiting professor in Berlin between 1981 and 1986. He left Hungary first for Germany then for the United States in 1985 when he was appointed to the head of the General Linguistics Department in ELTE in Budapest. He settled in Manassas, Virginia. He was a professor in the Foreign Service Institute and an advisor at the Jamestown Foundation. He died in Washington, D.C., of a heart attack, in 1993. He spoke several languages, such as English, German, Russian, French, Albanian, Arabic, and Ind ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Central Hungary
Central Hungary ( hu, Közép-Magyarország) is one of the seven statistical regions in Hungary ( NUTS 1 and NUTS 2). It includes (the capital of the region) and . Administration Central Hungary's subregions (population figures from the Hungarian Central Statistical Office as of 2009) Demography * Total population 2,925,500 (2009) ** 14% aged 0–14 years ** 69% aged 15–64 years ** 17% aged 65 and over Economy Central Hungary is the richest and most developed region of the country. The unemployment rate stood at 2.7% in 2017 and was much lower than the national and the european average. Tourism Central Hungary is part of the Budapest Central Transdanubia Tourist Region. Budapest In 1987 a World Heritage Site was declared which includes Buda Castle, the Danube Riverbank, the Andrássy Avenue and its historic surroundings, the Millennium Underground Railway and Heroes' Square. Other important landmarks in Buda are the Gellért Hill and the tomb of G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
River Danube
The Danube ( ; ) is a river that was once a long-standing frontier of the Roman Empire and today connects 10 European countries, running through their territories or being a border. Originating in Germany, the Danube flows southeast for , passing through or bordering Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria, Moldova, and Ukraine before draining into the Black Sea. Its drainage basin extends into nine more countries. The largest cities on the river are Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade and Bratislava, all of which are the capitals of their respective countries; the Danube passes through four capital cities, more than any other river in the world. Five more capital cities lie in the Danube's basin: Bucharest, Sofia, Zagreb, Ljubljana and Sarajevo. The fourth-largest city in its basin is Munich, the capital of Bavaria, standing on the Isar River. The Danube is the second-longest river in Europe, after the Volga in Russia. It flows through much of Central and S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Districts Of Hungary
Districts of Hungary are the second-level divisions of Hungary after counties. They replaced the 175 subregions of Hungary in 2013. Altogether, there are 174 districts in the 19 counties, and there are 23 districts in Budapest. Districts of the 19 counties are numbered by Arabic numerals and named after the district seat, while districts of Budapest are numbered by Roman numerals and named after the historical towns and neighbourhoods. In Hungarian, the districts of the capital and the rest of the country hold different titles. The districts of Budapest are called ''kerületek'' (lit. district, pl.) and the districts of the country are called ''járások.'' By county Baranya County Bács-Kiskun County Békés County Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County Csongrád-Csanád County Fejér County Győr-Moson-Sopron County Hajdú-Bihar County Heves County Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County Komárom-Esztergom County Nógrád County Pest County ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Cities And Towns Of Hungary
Hungary has 3,152 municipalities as of July 15, 2013: 346 towns (Hungarian term: ''város'', plural: ''városok''; the terminology doesn't distinguish between cities and towns – the term town is used in official translations) and 2,806 villages (Hungarian: ''község'', plural: ''községek'') of which 126 are classified as large villages (Hungarian: ''nagyközség'', plural: ''nagyközségek''). The number of towns can change, since villages can be elevated to town status by act of the President. The capital Budapest has a special status and is not included in any county while 23 of the towns are so-called urban counties (''megyei jogú város'' – town with county rights). All county seats except Budapest are urban counties. Four of the cities (Budapest, Miskolc, Győr, and Pécs) have agglomerations, and the Hungarian Statistical Office distinguishes seventeen other areas in earlier stages of agglomeration development. The largest city is the capital, Budapest, while the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Štúrovo
Štúrovo (before 1948: ''Parkan''; hu, Párkány, german: Gockern, tr, Ciğerdelen) is a town in Slovakia, situated on the River Danube. Its population in 2018 was 10,279. The town is situated opposite the Hungarian city of Esztergom. The Mária Valéria bridge connects the settlements. The bridge was destroyed in 1944 during World War II, but reconstructed in 2001. Names and etymology The initial name of the settlement was ''Kokot'' – the common Slavic word for a rooster (the word still exists in Slovak as a vulgarism). ''Kokot'' (1075), ''Cokot'' (1157), ''Kakath'' (1277). Later Slovak and Hungarian name was adopted from Turkish ''Cigerdelen Parkani'' (1543) – "the fortress stabbing to the liver of the enemy". It was given its current name after World War II and is named after the 19th century Slovak national leader, Ľudovít Štúr. There was an attempt to return to the old name in a local 1991 referendum; however the government refused to rename the town.http://w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the World War II by country, vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II was a total war that directly involved more than 100 million Military personnel, personnel from more than 30 countries. The major participants in the war threw their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind the war effort, blurring the distinction between civilian and military resources. Air warfare of World War II, Aircraft played a major role in the conflict, enabling the strategic bombing of population centres and deploying the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, only two nuclear weapons ever used in war. World War II was by far the List of wars by death toll, deadliest conflict in hu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abahani Limited (Dhaka)
Abahani Limited Dhaka ( bn, ঢাকা আবাহনী লিমিটেড), also referred as Dhaka Abahani or Abahani Limited, is a Bangladeshi professional football club based in the Dhanmondi area of Dhaka, Bangladesh. The club currently competes in the Bangladesh Premier League, the top flight of Bangladeshi Football. The club was founded as Abahani Krira Chakra ( bn, আবাহনী ক্রীড়া চক্র), through the re-organisation of Iqbal Sporting Club in 1972 by Sheikh Kamal, the eldest son of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. In 1989, it was converted into a Limited company. Abahani Limited Dhaka is regarded as one of the country's most renowned and well supported clubs. Since arriving in the domestic football scene, the club has formed a long enduring rivalry with the neighboring Dhaka Mohammedan SC, known as the Dhaka Derby. The club has won eleven Dhaka League titles, which was the highest tier in Bangladesh until 2006. Since the inception of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of Norway. Bouvet Island, located in the Subantarctic, is a dependency of Norway; it also lays claims to the Antarctic territories of Peter I Island and Queen Maud Land. The capital and largest city in Norway is Oslo. Norway has a total area of and had a population of 5,425,270 in January 2022. The country shares a long eastern border with Sweden at a length of . It is bordered by Finland and Russia to the northeast and the Skagerrak strait to the south, on the other side of which are Denmark and the United Kingdom. Norway has an extensive coastline, facing the North Atlantic Ocean and the Barents Sea. The maritime influence dominates Norway's climate, with mild lowland temperatures on the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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