Makó (, , Makowe, or , ) is a town in

Csongrád County Csongrád (; , archaically also ''Црноград/Crnograd,'' ) is a town in Csongrád County in southern Hungary. History At the time of the Hungarian Conquest (the end of 9th century) the Maros Valley was under Bulgarian control. The fortre ...

, in southeastern

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, from the

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n border. It lies on the Maros River. Makó is home to 21,913 people and it has an area of , of which is arable land. Makó is the fourth-largest town in Csongrád County after

Szeged Szeged ( , ; see also #Etymology, other alternative names) is List of cities and towns of Hungary#Largest cities in Hungary, the third largest city of Hungary, the largest city and regional centre of the Southern Great Plain and the county seat ...

Hódmezővásárhely Hódmezővásárhely (; also known by other alternative names) is a city with county rights in southeast Hungary, on the Great Hungarian Plain, at the meeting point of the Békés-Csanádi Ridge and the clay grassland surrounding the river Tisz ...

and

Szentes Szentes () is a town in south-eastern Hungary, Csongrád-Csanád County, Csongrád county, near the Tisza, Tisza river. The town is a cultural and educational center of the region. It is the third most populous town in Csongrád-Csanád County, Cso ...

. The town is from

, from

, from Arad, from Gyula, from

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(Temesvár), and from

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. The climate is warmer than anywhere else in

, with hot, dry summers. The town is noted for its onion which is a

hungarikum Hungarian culture, also known as Magyar culture, is characterized by its distinctive cuisine, folk traditions, poetry, theatre, religious customs, music and traditional embroidered garments. Hungarian folklore traditions include tales, music ...

, the spa and the thermal bath. The Makó International Onion Festival, the largest of its kind, is held annually. Makó is a popular tourist destination in Hungary. The

Makó gas field The Makó gas field (Makó Trough of the Pannonian Basin Gas Accumulation) is a large natural gas field next to Makó, in southeastern Hungary. Formation The worldwide interest in unconventional hydrocarbon accumulations has increased contin ...

, located near the town, is the largest

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. The gas volume is more than 600 billion cubic metres (21 trillion cubic feet), according to a report by the Scotia Group. The town's floodplain forests are protected as part of

Körös-Maros National Park Körös-Maros National Park is one of the 10 national parks in Hungary (area 501.34 km2), located in Békés county, in the Southern Great Plain. The park was created in 1997 for the protection of birds. Körös-Maros National Park has a n ...

Economy

The economy is based on

agriculture Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, and forestry for food and non-food products. Agriculture was a key factor in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created ...

. The town is noted for its production of

onion An onion (''Allium cepa'' , from Latin ), also known as the bulb onion or common onion, is a vegetable that is the most widely cultivated species of the genus '' Allium''. The shallot is a botanical variety of the onion which was classifie ...

s and

garlic Garlic (''Allium sativum'') is a species of bulbous flowering plants in the genus '' Allium''. Its close relatives include the onion, shallot, leek, chives, Welsh onion, and Chinese onion. Garlic is native to central and south Asia, str ...

. Both the climate and the soil structure make the town and its surroundings an ideal place for onion farming. Onions have been cultivated in the region since the 16th century. The first records of significant garlic production date to the late 18th century. International recognition of the garlic grown in Makó has been widespread since the Vienna Expo in 1873 and the

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in 1888. The mud of the Maros River has similar properties to some of the best in

and the world; at times it is likened to that of the

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. The local

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has been one of the main tourist attractions since 1961. With the political changes in 1989, after the break-up of the Soviet Union, Makó lost jobs in industry. Unemployment has risen in the area, to an estimated 8% in the early 21st century, and is considered a serious issue. Farmers have also suffered more economic difficulties. The town has established an

industrial park An industrial park, also known as industrial estate or trading estate, is an area zoned and planned for the purpose of industrial development. An industrial park can be thought of as a more heavyweight version of a business park or office par ...

to encourage that development, and the town hopes to build on its site as "The South-Eastern Gate of the

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". Makó has become known in the early 21st century for the nearby

Makó Trough Makó (, , Makowe, or , ) is a town in Csongrád County, in southeastern Hungary, from the Romanian border. It lies on the Maros River. Makó is home to 21,913 people and it has an area of , of which is arable land. Makó is the fourth-larges ...

, a basin-centered gas accumulation that could be one of the largest natural gas fields in continental Europe. As of March 2007, it was not clear whether the gas can be recovered economically from this area. At the 90% probability rate, Makó had certified recoverable resources of over 600 billion cubic meters of natural gas, according to a report by the Scotia Group. This was prepared for the field's exploration concession holder, the Canada-based Falcon Oil and Gas.

History

Makó used to be the capital of

Csanád Csanád, also Chanadinus, or Cenad, was the first head ''(comes)'' of Csanád County in the Kingdom of Hungary in the first decades of the 11th century. Csanád defeated and killed Ajtony who had ruled over the region now known as Banat (in R ...

, a historic administrative county (

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) of the

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. Many notable

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were born or have lived in Makó. Perhaps the most prominent is the

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publisher and journalist,

Joseph Pulitzer Joseph Pulitzer ( ; born , ; April 10, 1847 – October 29, 1911) was a Hungarian-American politician and a newspaper publisher of the ''St. Louis Post-Dispatch'' and the ''New York World''. He became a leading national figure in the U.S. Democ ...

, who was born to a Jewish family here on April 18, 1847. Emigrating to the United States when young, he developed as a publisher, owning and operating two newspapers in the United States: in

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and

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; bequeathed funds to

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to establish its school of journalism, and endowed the

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s in journalism and photography, as well as literature, art and music.

Jewish history

Makó developed a

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community beginning in the 18th century. The Orthodox

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was reconstructed during the years 1999-2002 and reopened on 10 March 2002. :hu:Ortodox zsinagóga (Makó) Jews began to settle in Makó about the middle of the 18th century, under the protection of Stanislavich, the

Bishop of Csanád A bishop is an ordained member of the clergy who is entrusted with a position of authority and oversight in a religious institution. In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance and administration of dioceses. The role ...

. In 1740, he assigned a special quarter where they soon formed a community, and by 1747 had established a

Chevra kadisha The term ''chevra kadisha'' () gained its modern sense of "burial society" in the nineteenth century. It is an organization of Jewish men and women who see to it that the bodies of deceased Jews are prepared for burial according to Jewish tra ...

. The first rabbi of Makó was Judah ben Abraham ha-Levi (who occupied the rabbinate from 1778 to 1824). He was succeeded by Salomon Ullman (1826–63). Ullman wrote a commentary on certain sections of ''

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'', under the title ''"Yeri'ot Shelomoh"'' (Vienna, 1854). He was followed by Anton Enoch Fischer (1864–96), former rabbi of

Dunaföldvár Dunaföldvár is a town in Tolna County, Hungary. Its residents are Hungarian people, Hungarians, with minority of Serbs. History A Bronze Age gold hoard of jewellery was found between Paks and Dunaföldvár on the banks of the Danube in the n ...

. Fischer introduced

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and (later) Hungarian in his sermons, when the community still spoke mostly Yiddish.
In 1904 the rabbi was Dr. A. Kecskemeti". The community established a Jewish school in Makó in 1851, of which Marcus Steinhardt was a teacher for forty years. The community also set up a Jewish Women's Association, a

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, and a

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. In 1900, Makó had 1,642 Jews, less than 5% of the total city population of 33,722. The community was destroyed during the

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. The Jewish population was deported to extermination camps, where most were killed in the last year of the war.

Geography

The former community pasture of the town near the Maros River has been preserved as part of the

. The traditional name of the area, ''Csordajárás,'' expresses its historic use as grazing ground for cattle.

Climate

Makó and the surrounding region get the most sunshine in

, about 85-90 sunny days a year. The sun shines more than 2,100 hours a year in Makó. The climate is relatively dry, especially in the summer, with the 100-year average of

precipitation In meteorology, precipitation is any product of the condensation of atmospheric water vapor that falls from clouds due to gravitational pull. The main forms of precipitation include drizzle, rain, rain and snow mixed ("sleet" in Commonwe ...

recorded at per year. The average medium temperature is .

Notable residents and natives

Politics

Lajos Návay Lajos Návay de Földeák (18 September 1870 – 29 April 1919) was a Hungarian jurist and politician, who served as Speaker of the House of Representatives between 1911 and 1912. Biography He was born in Földeák, Csanád County into a ...

(1870–1919), jurist, politician, Speaker of the House of Representatives (1911–1912) * Andrea Mágori, politician *

Béla Bánhidy Baron Béla Bánhidy de Simánd (17 February 1836 – 18 June 1890) was a Hungarian politician and Member of Parliament. He was elected as a member of the Diet of Hungary in 1875 as an MP for Kisjenő (today: ''Chişineu-Criş, Romania''). Af ...

, politician *

László Szászfalvi László Szászfalvi (born 11 January 1961) is a Hungarian Calvinist pastor, theologian and politician, Member of Parliament for Marcali from 1998 to 2014, then for Barcs Barcs (; ; or ) is a border town in Somogy County, Hungary, and the seat ...

, politician *

Ferenc Erdei Ferenc Erdei (24 December 1910 – 11 May 1971) was a Hungarian politician and sociologist. Initially a member of the National Peasant Party (NPP), he supported the party's merging into the Hungarian Working People's Party (MDP) and held ...

, politician *

József Kristóffy József Kristóffy (17 September 1857 – 29 March 1928) was a Hungarian politician, who served as Interior Minister for a year (1905–1906) in Géza Fejérváry's cabinet. Universal suffrage appeared as part of this cabinet's program. Kr ...

, politician, Interior Minister (1905–1906)

Science

Geza de Kaplany Geza de Kaplany (born 27 June 1926) is a Hungarian-born physician who emigrated to the United States in the late 1950s. In 1963, he was convicted of first-degree murder in California after mutilating his wife with a scalpel and corrosive stron ...

, physician *

Béla H. Bánáthy Béla Heinrich Bánáthy (; December 1, 1919 – September 4, 2003) was a Hungarian-American linguist, and Professor at San Jose State University and UC Berkeley. He is known as founder of the White Stag Leadership Development Program, establi ...

(1919–2003), Hungarian-American

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systems scientist Systems science, also referred to as systems research or simply systems, is a transdisciplinary field that is concerned with understanding simple and complex systems in nature and society, which leads to the advancements of formal, natural, socia ...

, educator, founder of White Stag Leadership Development Program in California *

József Galamb József Galamb (; 3 February 1881 – 4 December 1955) was a Hungarian mechanical engineer, most known as main-engineer for designing the Ford Model T. Born in the town of Makó in 1881, Galamb finished his education at the Budapest Industrial ...

(1881–1955), Hungarian-American engineer *

Peter Lantos Peter Laszlo Lantos (born 1939) is a British scientist and author of Hungarian Jewish origin. After surviving the Holocaust, he went on to undertake medical studies. He moved to the United Kingdom in 1968 where he worked as a medical researcher, ...

(born 1939), medical scientist and writer *

Moritz Löw Moritz Löw, astronomer; born at Makó, Hungary, in 1841; died in Steglitz, Berlin, May 25, 1900; studied at the universities of Leipzig and Vienna, and received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Budapest A university () is an instituti ...

(1841–1900, Steglitz, Berlin), Jewish Hungarian-German astronomer

Religion

Géza Vermes Géza Vermes, (; 22 June 1924 – 8 May 2013) was a British academic, Biblical scholar, and Judaist of Jewish–Hungarian descent—one who also served as a Roman Catholic priest in his youth—and scholar specialized in the field of the ...

(born 1924-2013), Jewish theologian, orientalist *

Meshulim Feish Lowy Meshilem Feish Segal Lowy II (, Magyarized: ''Lőwy Ferencz''; 11 April 1921 – 12 August 2015) was the fourth Grand Rebbe of the Tosh Hasidic dynasty. Biography Early life Lowy was born in Nyírtass, northeastern Hungary. His father Mordeca ...

, Grand Rebbe of the Tosh Hasidic dynasty * Vasile Erdeli, Romanian bishop of the Diocese of Oradea Mare (1843–1862) *

Sándor Rosenberg Alexander ándorRosenberg (1844 – 11 August 1909) was a Hungarian Neolog rabbi. Rosenberg was born in Makó; after studying at Vienna and Leipzig, and was trained in the Jewish Theological Seminary of Breslau, where he was made Doctor of Philos ...

, neolog rabbi

Media/Art/Entertainment

Tamás Kátai Thy Catafalque is an avant-garde metal band formed in Makó, Hungary, with its activities extending to Edinburgh, Scotland, reflecting the movements of its founder. History The band was formed by Hungarian musician Tamás Kátai, along with a ...

(born 1975), musician * Antal Páger (1899–1986), actor *

Katalin Berek Katalin Berek (7 October 1930 – 26 February 2017), also known as Kati, was a Hungarian actress. She appeared in more than 40 films and television shows between 1950 and 2001. She starred in the 1975 film ''Adoption'', which won the Golde ...

(1930–2017), actress * István Dégi (1935–1992), actor *

Bea Palya Bea Palya (Hungarian pronunciation: pɒjɒ bɛ.ɒ">small>pɒjɒ bɛ.ɒ born Beáta Palya; in Makó, 11 November 1976) is a Hungarian folk and world music singer and songwriter, sometimes appearing in films as an actress or singer. In her e ...

(born 1976), singer *

(1847–1911), Hungarian-American journalist, publisher and philanthropist *

Albert Pulitzer Albert Pulitzer (July 10, 1851 – October 3, 1909) was the younger brother of newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer. Pulitzer founded the ''New York Morning Journal'' in 1882,(18 November 1882)New York ''Boston Evening Transcript'' (noting debut of ...

(1851–1909), Hungarian-American journalist, teacher *

Andre de Toth Endre Antal Miksa de Toth, known as Andre de Toth (; May 15, 1913 – October 27, 2002), was a Hungarian-American film director, born and raised in Makó, Austria-Hungary. He directed the 3D film House of Wax (1953 film), ''House of Wax'' (1 ...

(1912–2002), Hungarian-American film director and producer * Emil Makai (1871–1901, Budapest), Hungarian poet *

Jenő Barcsay Jenő Barcsay (14 January 1900 – 2 April 1988) was a Hungarian painter with Armenian ancestry.Gudenus János József: Örmény eredetű magyar nemesi családok genealógiája Erdélyi Örmény Gyökerek, Budapest, 2000 His life Born in Katon ...

, painter

Sports

* József Sütő, long-distance runner *

Marko Milošević Marko Slobodanov Milošević ( sr-Cyrl, Марко Слободанов Милошевић; born 3 July 1974) is the son of Mirjana Marković and Slobodan Milošević, the deceased former president of Serbia and president of the Federal Republi ...

, Bosnian footballer, football manager * Gábor Gyömbér, footballer *

Zsolt Gévay Zsolt Gévay (born 19 November 1987) is a Hungarian professional footballer who plays for Paks, as a defender. Career Paks On 15 May 2024, he won the 2024 Magyar Kupa Final with Paks by beating Ferencváros 2–0 at the Puskás Aréna Pusk ...

, footballer *

Krisztina Pigniczki Krisztina Pigniczki (born 18 September 1975) is a Hungarian former handball player and Olympic medalist. She received a silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney,Zsolt Huszárik Zsolt Huszárik (born 4 August 1989 in Szeged) is a professional Hungarian footballer currently plays for BKV Előre SC. Career In the summer 2013, Huszárik joined Austrian club USC Mank. He played there until January 2014, where he joined anot ...

, footballer *

Tamás Szélpál Tamás Szélpál (born 11 July 1987) is a Hungarian football player who currently plays for Békéscsaba 1912 Előre SE Békéscsaba (; ; see also #Name, other alternative names) is a city with county rights in southeast Hungary, the capital o ...

, footballer *

András Dlusztus András Dlusztus (born 22 July 1988) is a Hungarian former football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, foot ...

, footballer *

László Köteles László Köteles (; born 1 September 1984) is a Hungarian former football goalkeeper. Club career Early career Köteles played for Vác and Diósgyőr in the Hungarian NB I, and with FK Železnik, RFK Grafičar Beograd and FK Bežanija in ...

, footballer

Twin towns – sister cities

Makó is twinned with: *

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, Serbia * Atça (Sultanhisar), Turkey * Bodo (Balinț), Romania * Dumbrava, Romania *

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, Poland *

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, Israel *

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, Romania *

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, Italy *

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, United States *

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, Romania *

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, Poland * Rusko Selo (Kikinda), Serbia *

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, Romania *

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, China *

Želiezovce Želiezovce (, until 1895: ; ) is a town in Slovakia in the Nitra Region in the Levice District, near the Hron river. Districts * Jarok (Želiezovce), Jarok () * Karolína (Želiezovce), Karolína * Mikula (Želiezovce), Mikula (1967 establis ...

, Slovakia

References

External links

* in Hungarian
Makó at funiq.hu
{{DEFAULTSORT:Mako Populated places in Csongrád-Csanád County Jewish communities in Hungary Holocaust locations in Hungary

Economy

History

Jewish history

Geography

Climate

Notable residents and natives

Politics

Science

Religion

Media/Art/Entertainment

Sports

Twin towns – sister cities

See also

References

External links