Gávavencsellő is a large
village
A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...
in
Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county, in the Northern Great Plain
region
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of eastern
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 ...
. The village was established in 1971 by merging the former separate villages of
Gáva and
Vencsellő.
Geography
It covers an
area
Area is the measure of a region's size on a surface. The area of a plane region or ''plane area'' refers to the area of a shape or planar lamina, while '' surface area'' refers to the area of an open surface or the boundary of a three-di ...
of and has a
population
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of 3938 people (2001).
History
In 1898 Rabbi Tzvi Hirsh
Friedlander became the village chief rabbi; until he got promoted as the chief rabbi of
Olaszliszka, When his father Rabbi Chaim Friedlander died in 1906. Rav Tzvi Hirsh established a
yeshiva
A yeshiva (; ; pl. , or ) is a traditional Jewish educational institution focused on the study of Rabbinic literature, primarily the Talmud and halacha (Jewish law), while Torah and Jewish philosophy are studied in parallel. The stu ...
, where about 40-60 students learned.
Rabbi Chaim said about his son becoming chief rabbi of Gava: "He is rav of Gava (=the city), but gava he does not possess".
Notable residents
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András Kozák, film actor
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László Karakó
László Karakó (born 27 March 1955) is a Hungarian politician, National Assembly of Hungary, member of the National Assembly (MP) for Tiszavasvári (Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County Constituency III) between 2010 and 2014. He had served as Member ...
, politician
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Theodore S. Weiss, politician
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László Vágner
László Vágner (born December 24, 1955, in Gávavencsellő) is a Hungarian former football referee.
He refereed two matches in the 1998 FIFA World Cup in France: Scotland v Norway at the Parc de Lescure in Bordeaux, and Chile v Cameroon at ...
, footballer
References
Populated places in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County
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