Sáta is a village in
Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County in northeastern
Hungary
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. Sáta lies in the western part of the county, about 15 km from
Ózd
Ózd () is a town in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county, Northern Hungary, from the county seat of Miskolc. Ózd is the second largest municipality in the county.
History
The area has been inhabited since ancient times. The village of Ózd was fir ...
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The town was first mentioned in 1281. Its significant buildings are a manor, built in 1735, a Roman Catholic church, built in Baroque style in 1808, and a parsonage, built in 1796.
József Szvorényi, Cistercian priest, academic was born here in 1816.
Due to the
locative suffix ''-n,'' "Sátán" means both
Satan
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and "in Sáta" in Hungarian. This makes the village the target of several jokes, the most famous being the
urban legend
Urban legend (sometimes modern legend, urban myth, or simply legend) is a genre of folklore concerning stories about an unusual (usually scary) or humorous event that many people believe to be true but largely are not.
These legends can be e ...
in which residents of the neighbouring village
Borsodbóta find a note in the priest's handwriting on the church door, saying "Today's mass is cancelled, I'm Satan" (with the intended meaning obviously being "I'm in Sáta").
Legyen közismert Sátáról
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References
Official site
Populated places in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County
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