Sajószentpéter (; ) is a town in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County, Northern

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. It lies in the

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agglomeration, 10 kilometres away from the county capital.

History

The town was mentioned first in 1281 as ''Szentpéter'' ( St. Peter). It got the first part of its name later, from the river

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. The town was owned by the king, it belonged first to the

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, then to the Dédes estate. During the

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fights the town was destroyed. It was built again after 1466 but got its town status back only in 1989. In the 17th–18th century the town was owned by several important noble families, among them the

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and the Losonczy families. In the 19th century the formerly agricultural village became an industrial one,

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mines were opened and a glass factory was built. Being halfway between two of the largest industrial cities of the area, Sajószentpéter couldn't avoid being more and more industrialized during the

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era, but, like in other cities and towns of Northern Hungary, the industry faced a crisis after the Socialist regime fall, and unemployment became one of the largest problems.

Sights

* Birthplace of

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* Country museum * Gallery

Notable people

Sigismund Rákóczi Sigismund Rákóczi (, ; 15445December 1608) was Prince of Transylvania from 1607 to 1608. He was the son of János Rákóczi, a lesser nobleman with estates in Upper Hungary. Sigismund began a military career as the sword-bearer of the wealth ...

(1544–1608), Prince of Transylvania (1607–1608) *

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(1918–2012), Israeli fashion designer and founder of

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* János Koszta (born 1959), footballer *

Oszkár Molnár Oszkár Molnár (born 1 June 1956) is a Hungarian politician and has been member of the National Assembly (MP) between 1998 and 2014. Biography He was born in Sajószentpéter, Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County, on 1 June 1956. He finished Izsó ...

(born 1956), politician *

Anikó Nagy Anikó Nagy (born April 1, 1970, in Sajószentpéter) is a former Hungarian team handball player and Olympic medalist. She received a bronze medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.Chaim Sofer Chaim Sofer (also known as the Machne Chaim, the name of his Responsa#In Judaism, responsa) (September 29, 1821 – June 28, 1886) was a renowned Hungarian rabbi and "scholarly spokesperson for Orthodox Judaism during his time." Biography Chaim ...

(1821–1886), rabbi * István Varga (born 1956), politician and economist * Sándor Pécsi (1922–1972), actor * Kitti Szász, Hungarian

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world champion

Twin towns – sister cities

Sajószentpéter is twinned with: *

Dobšiná Dobšiná (; ; Latin: ''Dobsinium'') is a small town in the Slovak Ore Mountains along the Slaná River. For 500 years it was a small but prosperous mining village populated by ethnic Germans within the Kingdom of Hungary; today it is a Slovaks, ...

, Slovakia *

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, Poland

References

External links

* in Hungarian {{DEFAULTSORT:Sajoszentpeter Populated places in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County Socialist planned cities Planned communities in Hungary