Tiszakécske is a town in
Bács-Kiskun county,
Hungary
Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning much of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia and ...
and the administrative centre of the
Tiszakécske District
Tiszakécske () is a district in north-eastern part of Bács-Kiskun County. '' Tiszakécske'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Southern Great Plain Statistical Region.
Geography
Tisza ...
. It is also famous of its spa and recreational parks.
Notable people
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Zoltán Varga (born 1977), footballer
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József Bujáki (born 1975), footballer
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Zoltán Bánföldi (born 1971), footballer
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János Zováth (born 1977), footballer
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Ernő Kovács (born 1959), mechanical technician, politician, Mayor of Tiszakécske 1998–2014
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Ferenc Seres
Ferenc Seres (born 3 November 1945) is a Hungarian wrestler. He was born in Tiszakécske. He won an Olympic bronze medal in Greco-Roman wrestling
Greco-Roman (American English), Graeco-Roman (British English), or classic wrestling (Eur ...
(born 1945), wrestler
Sports
The town has its own football club, the
Tiszakécske FC.
Twin towns – sister cities
Tiszakécske is
twinned with:
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Lübbecke
Lübbecke (; ) is a town in northeast North Rhine-Westphalia in north Germany. This former county town lies on the northern slopes of the Wiehen Hills (''Wiehengebirge'') and has around 26,000 inhabitants. The town is part of district of Minden- ...
, Germany
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Lunca de Sus
Lunca de Sus (; or colloquially ''Felsőlok'') is a commune in Harghita County, Romania. It lies in the Szekely Land, an ethno-cultural region in eastern Transylvania.
Component villages
The commune is composed of six villages:
Izvorul Tr ...
, Romania
References
External links
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Populated places in Bács-Kiskun County
Towns in Hungary
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