Adásztevel is a village in

Veszprém county Veszprém (, ; ) is an administrative county (''vármegye'') in Hungary. Veszprém is also the name of the capital city of Veszprém county. Veszprém county Veszprém county lies in western Hungary. It covers the Bakony hills and the norther ...

, Hungary. Initially, the settlement was known singly by the latter part of its name, attested as ''Tuel'' in 1180. A 1373 record calls it ''Adastewyl''. The origin of the prefix is obscure. It may come from the word ''ádáz'', meaning 'ferocious'. The suffix is simply from the old personal name Tevel, which is possibly the combination of ''tesz'' ('do') and the diminutive suffix ''-l''. A grandson of

Árpád Árpád (; 845 – 907) was the head of the confederation of the Magyar tribes at the turn of the 9th and 10th centuries. He might have been either the sacred ruler or '' kende'' of the Hungarians, or their military leader or '' g ...

was called this. At the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, Jews lived in the village. In

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, 149 Jews lived in the village and there was a

Jewish cemetery A Jewish cemetery ( ''beit almin'' or ''beit kvarot'') is a cemetery where Jews are buried in keeping with Halakha, Jewish tradition. Cemeteries are referred to in several different ways in Hebrew, including ''beit kevarot'' (house of s ...

there. Some of them were murdered in the

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.Documentation of the village's Jews murdered in the Holocaust
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Notable people

* László Komár, Hungarian singer

References

External links

Street map (Hungarian)
Populated places in Veszprém County {{Veszprem-geo-stub