Dabas () is a town in
Pest County,
Hungary
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, and the center of a microregion. It has a population of 17,000.
History
The town consists of four different parts:
Upper Dabas,
Lower Dabas,
Gyón and
Sári. The village of Dabas was already a populous settlement in 1270, but in the
Ottoman era the whole region became totally deserted. In the 18th century four new villages were created by the owners of the territory. The inhabitants of Upper-Dabas were catholic Hungarian serfs, Lower-Dabas was the centre of the lower nobility (especially the famous and populous Halász family), Sári (''Šari'') was populated by catholic Slovak colonists and Gyón by Reformed Hungarians and Evangelical Slovaks. The Slovaks of Sári kept their national identity until the present. In the 19th century the nobility of Lower Dabas built several Neoclassical mansions – these are the main attractions of the town today. The two Dabas were united in 1947, and in 1966 the other two villages joined too. In the 1970s Dabas was urbanised and a modern town centre was built with a court house, public school, office blocks and a big department store. Dabas became a town in 1989.
Main sights
Dabas is famous for the mansions of the lower nobility. The number of the national monuments from the 18th and 19th centuries is more than twenty. The most important of them is the big Neoclassical mansion of Móric Halász in Gyón and the Casino of the Nobles in Dabas. The Reformed Churches of Dabas and Gyón, the Evangelical Church of Gyón and the Catholic Churches of Dabas and Sári were built in the 18th century.
Notable people
* László Kossuth, the father of the famous Hungarian statesman,
Lajos Kossuth
Lajos Kossuth de Udvard et Kossuthfalva (; ; ; ; 19 September 1802 – 20 March 1894) was a Hungarian nobleman, lawyer, journalist, politician, statesman and governor-president of the Kingdom of Hungary during the Hungarian Revolution of 1848, r ...
resided in Dabas. The Kossuth family's home is today a memorial museum
*
Lajos Dinnyés, politician of the Smallholders Party, Prime Minister of Hungary between 31 May 1947 and 10 December 1948.
*
Sándor Balogh, footballer who was part of the
Golden Team
The Golden Team (, ) refers to the Hungary national football team of the 1950s. It is associated with several notable matches, including the quarter-final (" Battle of Berne") against Brazil, semi-final (against Uruguay) and final of the 1954 F ...
of the 1950s.
Sport
Dabas is home to
association football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular f ...
clubs
FC Dabas and
Dabas–Gyón FC
Dabas–Gyón Football Club is a professional football club based in Dabas, Pest County, Hungary, that competes in the Nemzeti Bajnokság III
Nemzeti Bajnokság III (''NB III'', ''National Championship III'') is the third tier of Football in ...
that currently play in the
Nemzeti Bajnokság III
Nemzeti Bajnokság III (''NB III'', ''National Championship III'') is the third tier of Football in Hungary, Hungarian football (from the autumn of 1997 till the spring of 2005, NB III was the fourth tier, the third was NB II).
The tier contains ...
.
Twin towns – sister cities
Dabas is
twinned with:
*
Abrud
Abrud (;Ștefan Pascu: A History of Transylvania, Dorset Press, 1990, , ; ) is a town in the north-western part of Alba County, Transylvania, Romania, located on the river Abrud. It administers three villages: Abrud-Sat (''Abrudfalva''), Gura C ...
, Romania
*
Aiton, Romania
*
Albenga
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Albenga has the nickname of ''city of a hundred spires''. The economy is mostly based on tourism, loc ...
, Italy
*
Banská Bystrica
Banská Bystrica (, also known by other #Etymology, alternative names) is a city in central Slovakia, located on the Hron River in a long and wide valley encircled by the mountain chains of the Low Tatras, the Greater Fatra, Veľká Fatra, and t ...
, Slovakia
*
Baraolt
Baraolt (; , ) is a town and administrative district in Covasna County, Romania. It lies in the Székely Land, an ethno-cultural region in eastern Transylvania. The town was mentioned for the first time as a settlement in 1224. It administers fiv ...
, Romania
*
Budapest XV, Hungary
*
Kalinkovo, Slovakia
*
Mukachevo
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, Ukraine
*
Senta
Senta ( sr-cyrl, Сента, ; Hungarian language, Hungarian: ''Zenta'', ; Romanian language, Romanian: ''Zenta'') is a town and municipality located in Vojvodina, Serbia. It is situated on the bank of the Tisza, Tisa river in the geographical ...
, Serbia
*
Staunton, United States
*
Tržič
Tržič (; ) is a List of cities and towns in Slovenia, town in northern Slovenia, close to the Austrian border. It is the seat of the Municipality of Tržič.
Geography
The town is located within the historic Upper Carniola region on the Tr ...
, Slovenia
References
External links
* in Hungarian
Video Dabas
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Populated places in Pest County