Sarkad is a town in
Békés County
Békés (, , ro, Județul Bichiș) is an administrative division (county or ''megye'') in south-eastern Hungary, on the border with Romania. It shares borders with the Hungarian counties Csongrád, Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok, and Hajdú-Bihar. The ...
,
Hungary
Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croa ...
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Location
* on the right bank of
Fekete-Körös river
* 14 km north of
Gyula
Twin towns – sister cities
Sarkad is
twinned
Twinning (making a twin of) may refer to:
* In biology and agriculture, producing two offspring (i.e., twins) at a time, or having a tendency to do so;
* Twin towns and sister cities, towns and cities involved in town twinning
* Twinning inst ...
with:
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Baraolt
Baraolt (; hu, Barót, ) is a town and administrative district in Covasna County, Romania. It lies in the Székely Land, an ethno-cultural region in eastern Transylvania. The town was mentioned for the first time as a settlement in 1224. It admi ...
, Romania
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Niestetal
Niestetal is a municipality in the district of Kassel, in Hesse, Germany. It is situated on the eastern bank of the Fulda, 4 km east of Kassel
Kassel (; in Germany, spelled Cassel until 1926) is a city on the Fulda River in northern Hesse ...
, Germany
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Salonta
Salonta (; hu, Nagyszalonta, italic=no, colloquially , ; ger, Grosssalontha, italic=no; tr, Salanta, italic=no) is a city in Bihor County, in the geographical region of Crișana, north-western Romania, near the Hungarian border.
Population
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, Romania
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Snagov
Snagov (population: 7,272) is a commune, located north of Bucharest, in Ilfov County, Muntenia, Romania. According to the 2011 census, 92% of the population is ethnic Romanian. The commune is composed of five villages: Ciofliceni, Ghermănești ...
, Romania
Notable people
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Sándor Képíró
Sándor Képíró (18 February 19143 September 2011) was a Hungarian gendarmerie captain during World War II accused of war crimes committed by Hungarian forces.
Wartime career
A police officer in the Hungarian gendarmerie, by 1942 Képíró was ...
, gendarmerie captain
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Loránd Kesztyűs
Loránd Kesztyűs ( Sarkad, Hungary, 11 April 1915 − Debrecen, Hungary, 17 August 1979) was a Hungarian physician, immunologist, pathophysiologist, a full member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
Career
He studied at the University of De ...
, physician, immunologist, and pathophysiologist
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Sándor Kónya
Sándor Kónya (23 September 1923 – 20 May 2002) was a Hungarian tenor, particularly associated with German and Italian roles, especially Lohengrin and Calaf.
Biography
Kónya was born in Sarkad, Hungary, and began his vocal studies at the ...
, opera singer
References
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External links
* in Hungarian
Populated places in Békés County
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