Kétegyháza (; ) is a large

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Békés County Békés (, , ) is an administrative division (county or ''vármegye'') in south-eastern Hungary, on the border with Romania. It shares borders with the Hungarian counties Csongrád-Csanád, Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok, and Hajdú-Bihar. The capital ...

, in the

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of south-east

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. It is one of the main centres of Hungary's Romanian minority. Jews lived in the village in the 19th century and in 1944 many of them were murdered in the

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of the Jews of Hungary.Documentation of the village's Jews murdered in the Holocaust
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Notable people

* Franz Czeisler - circus impresario and illusionist * Sándor Márki - historiographer, professor * József Kalcsó – painter * Imre Mudin – athlete, Olympic participant * István Mudin – athlete, flagbearer of Hungary at the 1908 Olympics, older brother of Imre * Aurel Suciu - signatory of the

Transylvanian Memorandum The ''Transylvanian Memorandum'' () was a petition sent in 1892 by the leaders of the Romanians of Transylvania to the Austro-Hungarian Emperor-King Franz Joseph, asking for equal ethnic rights with the Hungarians, and demanding an end to perse ...

Tourist sights

* Machine museum - collection of agricultural machinery and equipment * Romanian country house * Jewish Cemetery

References

External links

* in Hungarian Populated places in Békés County Romanian communities in Hungary {{Bekes-geo-stub