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Vésztő
Vésztő is a town in Békés county, in the Southern Great Plain region of south-east Hungary. Geography It covers an area of 125.76 km2 and has a population of 6855 people (2015). The town is situated in the Tisza plain. History North of the modern town there is the archaeological site of a Neolithic tell. At its top the medieval Csolt monastery is located. The jewish community In the 19th century, a Jewish community lived in the village. Most of them worked as merchants and later became industrialists. Their non-Jewish neighbors trusted them and some Jews were even elected to the city council and were also active in the town's culture. Relationships with their neighbors were generally good. The community had a Jewish school. The community synagogue was built in 1934 after the previous synagogue was destroyed in a flood. In 1920, 181 Jews lived in the community. In May 1944, after the German army entered Hungary, all the Jews were concentrated in a ghetto that included ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Szeghalom District
Szeghalom () is a district in northern part of Békés County. '' Szeghalom'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Southern Great Plain Statistical Region. Geography Szeghalom District borders with Püspökladány District ''( Hajdú-Bihar County)'' to the north, Berettyóújfalu District ''(Hajdú-Bihar County)'' and Sarkad District to the east, Békés District to the south, Gyomaendrőd District and Karcag District ''( Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County)'' to the west. The number of the inhabited places in Szeghalom District is 7. Municipalities The district has 4 towns and 3 villages. (ordered by population, as of 1 January 2012) The bolded municipalities are cities. Demographics In 2011, it had a population of 29,709 and the population density was 42/km². Ethnicity Besides the Hungarian majority, the main minorities are the Roma (approx. 1,200) and German (100). Total population (2011 census): 29,709 Ethnic grou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Cities And Towns Of Hungary
Hungary has 3,152 Municipality, municipalities as of July 15, 2013: 346 towns (Hungarian term: , plural: ; the terminology does not distinguish between city, cities and towns – the term town is used in official translations) and 2,806 villages (Hungarian: , plural: ) of which 126 are classified as large villages (Hungarian: , plural: ). 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 25 of the towns are so-called City with county rights, cities with county rights. All county seats except Budapest are cities with county rights. 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 smallest town is Pálháza with 1038 inhabitants (2010). The larg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Menyhért Lakatos
Menyhért Lakatos (April 11, 1926, Vésztő — August 21, 2007, Budapest) was a Romani people in Hungary, Hungarian Romani writer"Lakatos Menyhért" a bio at the Lakatos Menyhért School website, citing Lajos Rácz, ''Roma értelmiségiek arcképcsarnoka'' Since 1988 he was President of the Hungarian Romani Cultural Association (Magyarországi Cigányok Kulturális Szövetsége). His most famous book, ''Füstös képek'' ("Images in Smoke", translated in English as ''The Color of Smoke'') is a novel based on personal experience, set in World War II. It is a ''bildungsroman'' that shows life in a Roma village in Northeast Hungary, from 1940 until the German occupation of the country in 1944 when Porajmos, Roma people were put into death camps. While filled with amusing anecdotes, with a petty criminal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dumbrava, Timiș
Dumbrava (; ) is a commune in Timiș County, Romania. It is composed of three villages: Bucovăț, Dumbrava (commune seat) and Răchita. It is located in the east of Timiș County and borders Făget to the northeast, Fârdea to the southeast, Traian Vuia to the southwest and Mănăștiur to the northwest. History Dumbrava was established in 1893 by colonizing with Reformed Hungarians from Vésztő, Makó, Köröstarcsa and Gyoma. However, its name is older and comes from a former settlement, on the hearth of which the present-day locality was built. It was called ''Igazfalva'' by Hungarians since the Middle Ages. By 1453 there were two small settlements: ''Alsóigazfalva'' ("Lower Igazfalva") and ''Felsőigazfalva'' ("Upper Igazfalva"); the names seem to have been imposed by the Hungarian nobles, for there were no Hungarians living in the two villages. The two merged by 1464. The Hungarian colony was designed on the forests belonging to the state treasury. The perpendicular st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Békés County
Békés (, , ) is an administrative division (county or ''vármegye'') in south-eastern Hungary, on the border with Romania. It shares borders with the Hungarian counties Csongrád-Csanád, Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok, and Hajdú-Bihar. The capital of Békés county is Békéscsaba. The county is also part of the Danube-Kris-Mures-Tisa euroregion. Etymology In Slovak, it is known as ''Békešská župa'' and in Romanian as ''Județul Bichiș''. After Hungarians conquered the area, Békés and its surroundings were the property of the '' Csolt'' clan. Békés (the name means "peaceful") was originally the name of the castle which gave its name to the comitatus, and, like many castles, was possibly named after its first steward. Geography This county has a total area of – 6.05% of Hungary. Békés County lies on the Pannonian Plain (Great Plain) and is a flat area with good soil. The average rainfall is 645 mm per year. One-fifth of the natural gas resources of Hungar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
László Hajdu
László Hajdu (born August 23, 1947) is a Hungarian economist and politician, who has served as Mayor of the 15th district of Budapest from 2014 to 2018, a position which he also held between 1996 and 2010. He was replaced by Tamás László. Hajdu also represented District XV (Budapest Constituency XXIII) in the National Assembly of Hungary The National Assembly ( ) is the parliament of Hungary. The unicameral body consists of 199 (386 between 1990 and 2014) members elected to four-year terms. Election of members is done using a semi-proportional representation: a mixed-member m ... from 1994 to 2010, and again since 2018. Personal life He is married to Krisztina Mária Katalin Onódi, a public servant, since 1970. The couple has three children - a son László (born in 1970) and two daughters, Katalin (born in 1975) and Mónika (born in 1979). agyarország sikeres személyiségei - British Publishing House, 2020 - Hajdu László/ref> References 1947 births Livi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Békés County
Békés (, , ) is an administrative division (county or ''vármegye'') in south-eastern Hungary, on the border with Romania. It shares borders with the Hungarian counties Csongrád-Csanád, Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok, and Hajdú-Bihar. The capital of Békés county is Békéscsaba. The county is also part of the Danube-Kris-Mures-Tisa euroregion. Etymology In Slovak, it is known as ''Békešská župa'' and in Romanian as ''Județul Bichiș''. After Hungarians conquered the area, Békés and its surroundings were the property of the '' Csolt'' clan. Békés (the name means "peaceful") was originally the name of the castle which gave its name to the comitatus, and, like many castles, was possibly named after its first steward. Geography This county has a total area of – 6.05% of Hungary. Békés County lies on the Pannonian Plain (Great Plain) and is a flat area with good soil. The average rainfall is 645 mm per year. One-fifth of the natural gas resources of Hungar ... [...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. 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 Somogy C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Central European Time
Central European Time (CET) is a standard time of Central, and parts of Western Europe, which is one hour ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). The UTC offset, time offset from UTC can be written as UTC+01:00. It is used in most parts of Europe and in several African countries. CET is also known as Middle European Time (MET, German: :de:Mitteleuropäische Zeit, MEZ) and by colloquial names such as Amsterdam Time, Berlin Time, Brussels Time, Budapest Time, Madrid Time, Paris Time, Stockholm Time, Rome Time, Prague time, Warsaw Time or Romance Standard Time (RST). The 15th meridian east is the central axis per UTC+01:00 in the world system of time zones. As of 2023, all member state of the European Union, member states of the European Union observe summer time (daylight saving time), from the last Sunday in March to the last Sunday in October. States within the CET area switch to Central European Summer Time (CEST, UTC+02:00) for the summer. The next change to CET is scheduled ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vârghiș
Vârghiș (, Hungarian pronunciation: ) is a commune in Covasna County, Transylvania, Romania. It is composed of a single village, Vârghiș. History The village formed part of the Székely Land region of the historical Transylvania province. Until 1918, it belonged to the Háromszék County of the Kingdom of Hungary. In the immediate aftermath of World War I, following the declaration of the Union of Transylvania with Romania, the area passed under Romanian administration during the Hungarian–Romanian War of 1918–1919. By the terms of the Treaty of Trianon of 1920, it became part of the Kingdom of Romania. In 1925, the commune fell in Plasa Baraolt of Trei Scaune County. In August 1940, under the auspices of Nazi Germany, which imposed the Second Vienna Award, Hungary retook the territory of Northern Transylvania (which included Vârghiș) from Romania. Towards the end of World War II, however, the commune was taken back from Hungarian and German troops by Romanian and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brăduț
Brăduț (; ) is a commune in Covasna County, Transylvania, Romania composed of four villages: Brăduț, Doboșeni (''Székelyszáldobos''), Filia (''Erdőfüle''), and Tălișoara (''Olasztelek''). Geography The commune is situated in the northeastern foothills of the Perșani Mountains, at an altitude of , in the valley of the river Cormoș. It is located in the northwestern extremity of Covasna County, just north of the town of Baraolt and from the county seat, Sfântu Gheorghe, on the border with Harghita County. Brăduț may be accessed from the south by Roads in Romania, county road DJ131, followed by communal road DC42. Demographics The commune has an absolute Székelys, Székely Hungarians in Romania, Hungarian majority. According to the 2002 census, it had a population of 4,688, of which 83.64% or 3,921 were Hungarians. At the 2021 Romanian census, 2021 census, Brăduț had a population of 4,923; of those, 65.33% were Hungarians, 24.86% Romani people in Romania, Roma, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Central European Summer Time
Central European Summer Time (CEST, UTC+02:00), sometimes referred to as Central European Daylight Time (CEDT), is the standard clock time observed during the period of summer daylight-saving in those European countries which observe Central European Time (CET; UTC+01:00) during the other part of the year. It corresponds to UTC+02:00, which makes it the same as Eastern European Time, Central Africa Time, South African Standard Time, Egypt Standard Time and Kaliningrad Time in Russia. Names Other names which have been applied to Central European Summer Time are Middle European Summer Time (MEST), Central European Daylight Saving Time (CEDT), and Bravo Time (after the second letter of the NATO phonetic alphabet). Period of observation Since 1996, European Summer Time has been observed between 01:00 UTC (02:00 CET and 03:00 CEST) on the last Sunday of March, and 01:00 UTC on the last Sunday of October; previously the rules were not uniform across the European Union. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
