Nagykáta is a town in
,
Hungary
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, about from Budapest.
Connections
Express trains take 47 minutes to
Budapest Keleti railway station
from Nagykáta and stopping trains about 65 minutes.
History
The history of Nagykáta dates back to the 12th century,
when the Pest county branch of the Káta family settled
in the region.
On the outskirts of Nagykáta, at a place called Kenderhalom,
can be found the remains of a village which was the
predecessor of Nagykáta at the time of the
Árpád dynasty
The Árpád dynasty consisted of the members of the royal House of Árpád (), also known as Árpáds (, ). They were the ruling dynasty of the Principality of Hungary in the 9th and 10th centuries and of the Kingdom of Hungary from 1000 to 130 ...
.
The Regestrum of Várad mentions the name of the village as in 1221. In the 15th and 16th centuries the name of Nagykáta appears as in several documents. The name ''Nagykáta'' appears first at the beginning of the 17th century.
Although the village was destroyed several times under the
Turkish
occupation of Hungary, it was always revived. The Káthay family were unable keep up with so many setbacks and could not survive the struggle. Heirless Ferenc Káthay had to sell his remaining estates – even Csekekáta – to Miklós
Keglevich in 1663.
When
Buda
Buda (, ) is the part of Budapest, the capital city of Hungary, that lies on the western bank of the Danube. Historically, “Buda” referred only to the royal walled city on Castle Hill (), which was constructed by Béla IV between 1247 and ...
was reoccupied Nagykáta was also marked for destruction, and it did not appear in
the official registers until 1665, but from 1696 the village had an ordained priest again, and the registration of births, marriages death began.
In November 2020, the city's local assembly adopted a resolution banning the ''"spread and promotion of LGBTQ propaganda in any institution maintained by the municipality"''.
Twin towns – sister cities
Nagykáta is
twinned with:
*
Alfonsine, Italy
*
Negotino, North Macedonia
*
Ozun, Romania
Gallery
File:Nagykáta2.jpg
File:Clarion Hungary, aerial, Nagykáta.jpg
References
External links
* in Hungarian
Street map
Populated places in Pest County
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