Jobágyi is a village in

Nógrád County Nógrád (, ; ) is a counties of Hungary, county () of Hungary. It sits on the northern edge of Hungary and borders Slovakia. Description Nógrád county lies in northern Hungary. It shares borders with Slovakia and the Hungarian counties Pest ( ...

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, beside of the

Zagyva The Zagyva is a river in Hungary. This 179 km long river drains a basin of 5,677 km2. The source is near Salgótarján in Nógrád county. It flows through the towns of Bátonyterenye, Pásztó, Hatvan and Jászberény and flows into t ...

river, under the

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mountain ranges. As of 2022 census, it has a population of 1874 (see Demographics). The village located beside of the main road 21 and the (Nr. 81)

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line and 17.2 km away from the

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. The village have an own railway stop with public transport.

History

They were also found at the sand mine and the

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in the 19th and 20th centuries prehistoric tools and

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bones, which allow us to infer that the area was inhabited in the

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and

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. The first written mention of the settlement dates from 1229, under the name ''Jobbágyi'', presumably inhabited by castle serfs. King Charles I donated it to Master Demeter in 1326 after the death of the previous owner, the Zaar family. The village received the right to hold a weekly fair in 1329. In the papal tithe list of 1332, its

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church is already mentioned. It was the property of Miklós Szalánczi in 1344, voivode of Transylvania, who gained the right of ius gladii to the settlement from King Louis I. It was the property of in 1424 and then in 1465

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. According to the Ottoman tax census of 1546, approx. 150-300 people live there. A

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was built on the banks of the

in 1715, in which the produced

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and

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s were processed. Jobbágyi inhabited by 14 families at that time. An epidemic in 1778-79, and a fire in 1797 ravaged the settlement. Between 1796 and 1802, the church was rebuilt and expanded in the

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. In the 19th century,

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became the most important. It was destroyed by a fire in 1830, then by a

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epidemic in the next year. On August 23 in 1831, due to the epidemic, there was a

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led by Pál Kaszaph, because the

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spread that the

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s had been poisoned. 2 nobles 2 farm officials and the clerk were beaten, the priest had to swear that the nobles had not poisoned the wells. The rebels were later fined. György Sréter built a classicist-style castle in 1821, which later belonged to the Bérczy and

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families. The painter Géza Mészöly lived the settlement after 1882, who painted his picture "Birkanyáj" (''The sheep flock'') here. In the summer of 1944, the

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families of the settlement were

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. The village council in 1951 requested to change the name of the settlement to ''Kossuthváros, Szabad-Mátra or Szabadságháza'', but this was refused by the

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Demographics

According the 2022 census, 91.6% of the population were of Hungarian ethnicity, 15.5% were

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and 8.4% were did not wish to answer. The religious distribution was as follows: 31.5%

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, 2.2%

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, 1.2%

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, 23.2% non-denominational, and 35.9% did not wish to answer. The

have a local nationality government. 1678 people live in the main inner area and 199 in ''Losonci Road'', what is 0.9 km away from the village centre. Another 14 people are living in 3 farms. Population by years:

Politics

''Mayors since 1990'': * 1990–1994: László Majoros (independent) * 1994–1998: György Jancsó (independent) * 1998–2010: László Majoros (independent) * 2010–2014: Attila Farkas (

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) * 2014–2024: István Schoblocher (independent) * 2024-: Norbert Pintér (independent)

Notable people

András Fáy András Fáy (; 30 May 178626 July 1864) was a Hungarian author, lawyer, politician and businessman. Life He was born at Kohány (today Kochanovce, suburb of Sečovce) in the county of Zemplén, and was educated for the law at the Protestant ...

(1786–1864) author, here written his work "A mátrai vadászat" (''The Mátra hunt'') *

Imre Frivaldszky Emerich Frivaldszky von Frivald (6 February 1799 – 19 October 1870), known as Imre Frivaldszky, was a Hungarian botanist and entomologist. Biography Born into a family of landed gentry, Frivaldszky studied at the gymnasiums in Sátoraljaú ...

(1799–1870) botanist, entomologist * (1821–1867) author, buried here * Géza Mészöly (1844–1887) painter * (1867–1935) railway engineer

References

Populated places in Nógrád County {{Nograd-geo-stub