Domoszló is a village in

Heves County Heves county (, ) lies in northern Hungary, between the right bank of the river Tisza and the Mátra and Bükk mountains. It shares borders with the Hungarian counties Pest (county), Pest, Nógrád (county), Nógrád, Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén and ...

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, beside of the Domoszlói creek in the

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mountain ranges. As of the 2022 census, it had a population of 1861 people. The settlement is located 10.1 km from the Nr. 84 Kisterenye–Kál-Kápolna railway line, 12.1 kilometers from Main road 3 and 16.6 kilometers from the

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. The

Verpelét Verpelét is a town in Heves County, Hungary, under the Mátra mountain range, beside of the Tarna River. As of 2022 census, it has a population of 3738 (see Demographics). The town located 17.3 km from Eger, the capital of the county and beside ...

railway station was the nearest form of public transportation, however, it was closed on . Today, the closest means of public transport is in Ludas, 14.6 kilometers away.

History

According to local folklore and culture, the settlement was named after Prince Domoszló, son of King Samuel, from whom the Kompolti family descended. His name, in turn, came from a

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personal name: ''Domoslav''. King Stephen V confirmed the

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of privilege of Aba Kompolt In 1263. In 1522, the village became the property of the via a succession treaty between the Kompolt and Országh families. After the death of in 1567, King Maximilian II agreed to the succession of the female branch and the estate passed to Borbala Országh and her husband . The population of the settlement fled from the Ottoman conquerors around the 16th century. King Leopold I donated Domoszló to John Einczinger in 1698 and finally, István Tarródy came into possession of the area through a purchase in 1722. The ethnicity of the population which resettled in the 18th century were mostly

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; the village had 598 inhabitants in 1746 and 804 in 1767. The church of St. Demeter was built in the

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in 1739, allowing one of the

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s of the monastery that once stood in it, to be incorporated into the church. The castle of ''Oroszlánkő'', which ruins are barely visible today, was built north of the village in the 13th century.

Demographics

According the 2022 census, 91.5% of the population were of Hungarian ethnicity, 1.1% were

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and 8.5% were did not wish to answer. The religious distributions were: 42.3%

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, 2.8%

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, 8.7% non-denominational, and 43.1% did not wish to answer. The

have a local nationality government. No population in farms. Population by decades:

Politics

''Mayors since 1990'': * 1990–2002: Sándor Krizsó (Independent) * 2002–2010: Béla Gyurkó (Independent) * 2010–2017: István Havelant † (

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) * 2017–: Richárd Paulenka (

)

References

Populated places in Heves County {{Heves-geo-stub