Mezőberény
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Town in Békés, Hungary
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Mezőberény (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈmɛzøːbɛreːɲ]; German: Maisbrünn; Slovak: Poľný Berinčok) is a town in Békés county, Hungary.
Location
Mezőberény is located in the Great Hungarian Plain, 200 km southeast from Budapest. Highway 46, 47 and Budapest-Szolnok-Békéscsaba-Lökösháza high speed (120–160 km/h (75–99 mph)) railway line also cross the town.[1]
History
The Medieval village of Berény was ruined due to the Ottoman wars, native Hungarian population fled from the area. It was rebuilt in the 18th century with German, Hungarian and Slovak settlers and was a multiethnic town until the late 19th century, when Germans and Slovaks adopted the Hungarian language.[2] In 1881, the town had a population of 11,368 people, of which 4,267 were Slovaks, 3,860 Hungarians, 2,614 Germans and 627 of other ethnicites.[3]
Notable people
See also: Category:People from Békés County
- Soma Orlai Petrich (1822–1880), painter
Twin towns – sister cities
Mezőberény is twinned with:[4]
Čantavir (Subotica), Serbia
Gronau, Germany
Kolárovo, Slovakia- Münsingen, Germany
Sovata, Romania
References
- ^ Magyarország autóatlasz, Dimap-Szarvas, Budapest, 2004, ISBN 963-03-7576-1
- ^ Károly Kocsis (DSc, University of Miskolc) – Zsolt Bottlik (PhD, Budapest University) – Patrik Tátrai: Etnikai térfolyamatok a Kárpát-medence határon túli régióiban, Magyar Tudományos Akadémia (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) – Földrajtudományi Kutatóintézet (Academy of Geographical Studies); Budapest; 2006.; ISBN 963-9545-10-4, CD Atlas
- ^ "Hungarian 1881 census" (in Hungarian). Retrieved 8 December 2022.
- ^ "Testvérvárosaink". mezobereny.hu (in Hungarian). Mezőberény. Retrieved 2024-02-22.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mezőberény.
- Official website (in Hungarian)
- Guide Mezőberény (in Hungarian)
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