Hajdúböszörmény is a town in northeastern
Hungary
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with a population of approximately 30,000 people.
History
It is also home to one of the faculties of the University of Debrecen. It has a unique circular plan (like
Paris
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) to the streets that is supposed to have originated as a defense from invasion or attack. Not knowing the plan of the streets a visitor could easily get quite lost only to discover that they were walking in circles for an extended period.
Like many smaller towns of Hungary the population even within the city limits generates income as well as household necessities from agriculture and animal husbandry, because of this feature of the local economy, high fences and a cornucopia of smells are very common even within the town core.
In 1990s Hajdúböszörmény underwent an economic crisis causing widespread
unemployment
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. Many attribute high unemployment levels to
the falling of the Iron Curtain that took place in 1989 and the adjustment period that any economy would need to go through in such an economic upheaval. One more recent cause of unemployment was the downsizing of the
General Electric
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Over the year ...
Tungsram plant (due to new economic options the company was exploring in
China
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).
Twin towns – sister cities
Hajdúböszörmény is
twinned with:
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Berehove, Ukraine
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Harkány, Hungary
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Joseni, Romania
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Kraśnik
Kraśnik is a town in southeastern Poland with 35,602 inhabitants (2012), situated in the Lublin Voivodeship, historic Lesser Poland. It is the seat of Kraśnik County. The town of Kraśnik as it is known today was created in 1975, after the mer ...
, Poland
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Montesilvano
Montesilvano () is a city and ''comune'' of the province of Pescara, in the Abruzzo region of Italy. Abruzzo is often called Mare-Monti (Sea-Mountain) region. The name Montesilvano is apparently derived from the Latin which means "woody hill" (" ...
, Italy
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Salonta
Salonta (; , colloquially , ; ) is a municipiu, city in Bihor County, in the geographical region of Crișana, north-western Romania, near the Hungarian border.
Population
According to the 2021 Romanian census, 2021 census, Salonta has a popu ...
, Romania
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Siilinjärvi, Finland
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Trogir, Croatia
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Újrónafő, Hungary
References
External links
* in Hungarian
Hajdúböszörmény at funiq.hu
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Populated places in Hajdú-Bihar County