Alsózsolca is a town in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county,

Hungary Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning much 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 south, Croatia and ...

. In the 19th and 20th centuries, a Jewish community lived in the village. In 1930, there were 75 Jews in the village. In 1944, all the city's Jews were sent to the

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, most of whom were murdered in the

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. The village still has a

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.The Jewish cemetery in the city
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Geography

Alsózsolca is located in a low-lying area at the bank of

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. The village has roads leading to

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in the south, to

Felsőzsolca Felsőzsolca is a small town in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county, in northern Hungary, in the Miskolc agglomeration. It is the city with the tenth highest population in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county and the second biggest in the Miskolc agglomeration ...

due north, as well as towards Onga going north-east. The area has artificial lakes created from abandoned mines.

References

External links

* in Hungarian
Street map

Aerialphotographs of Alsózsolca
Populated places in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County {{Borsod-geo-stub