---- Erzsébetváros (; , both names meaning ''Elizabethtown'') is the 7th district of

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, situated on the Pest side of the

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. The inner half of the district was the historic Jewish quarter of Pest. The Dohány Street Synagogue, the largest functioning synagogue in Europe, is located in this district. Currently it is the most densely populated district of Budapest with 29,681.3 person per km². In 1910 Erzsébetváros had 152,454 inhabitants. During the socialist era Erzsébetváros's population decreased rapidly, because young people and families moved to the newer " panelized" boom districts ( Újpest, Újbuda, Óbuda, Kispest etc.).

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and recovery started in the middle of the 2000s.

Name

Erzsébetváros was named on 17 January 1882 after Queen Elisabeth (a.k.a. "The Empress Sissi"), the popular consort of Emperor of Austria and

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Franz Joseph I of the Habsburg Empire.
Until the unification of Budapest in 1873 this area was part of Terézváros. Between 1873 and 1882 it was named District VII without name.

Politics

The current mayor of VII. District of Budapest is Péter Niedermüller (DK). The District Assembly, elected at the 2019 local government elections, is made up of 15 members (1 Mayor, 10 Individual constituencies MEPs and 4 Compensation List MEPs) divided into this political parties and alliances:

List of mayors

Twin towns – sister cities

Erzsébetváros is twinned with: *

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Gallery

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References

External links

Aerial photographs of Erzsébetváros

The old jewish quarter of Pest
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