Kétegyháza
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Kétegyháza
Chitighaz | |
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Village | |
Coordinates: 46°32′56″N 21°11′1″E / 46.54889°N 21.18361°E | |
Country | Hungary |
Region | Southern Great Plain |
County | Békés |
Subregion | Gyulai |
Government | |
• Mayor | Mária Gyuricska (Independent)[1] |
Area | |
• Total | 50.49 km2 (19.49 sq mi) |
Population (2010)[3] | |
• Total | 4,135 |
• Density | 82/km2 (210/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
Postal code | 5741 |
Area code | +36 66 |
KSH code | 03461[2] |
Website | ketegyhaza.hu |
Kétegyháza (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈkeːtɛchaːzɒ]; Romanian: Chitighaz) is a large village in Békés County, in the Southern Great Plain region of south-east Hungary. It is one of the main centres of Hungary's Romanian minority.
Jews lived in the village in the 19th century and in 1944 many of them were murdered in the Holocaust of the Jews of Hungary.[4]
Notable people
- Franz Czeisler - circus impresario and illusionist
- Sándor Márki - historiographer, professor
- József Kalcsó – painter
- Imre Mudin – athlete, Olympic participant
- István Mudin – athlete, flagbearer of Hungary at the 1908 Olympics, older brother of Imre
- Aurel Suciu - signatory of the Transylvanian Memorandum
Tourist sights
- Machine museum - collection of agricultural machinery and equipment
- Romanian country house
- Jewish Cemetery
References
- ^ "Békés Megye Képviselő-testületének Közlönye" (PDF) (in Hungarian). bekesmegye.hu. November 2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 11 March 2012.
- ^ a b Kétegyháza at the Hungarian Central Statistical Office (Hungarian).
- ^ Kétegyháza at the Hungarian Central Statistical Office (Hungarian). 2010
- ^ Documentation of the village's Jews murdered in the Holocaust
External links
Media related to Kétegyháza at Wikimedia Commons
- Official website in Hungarian
46°32′N 21°11′E / 46.533°N 21.183°E
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