Csanád (other)
Csanád was an 11th-century Hungarian nobleman. Csanád may also refer to: *Csanád County, a county in the Kingdom of Hungary *Cenad ( hu, Csanád, links=no), a rural municipality in Timiș County, Banat, western Romania *Roman Catholic Diocese of Szeged–Csanád The Roman Catholic Diocese of Szeged–Csanád ( la, Dioecesis Szegediensis–Csanadiensis) is a diocese located in the cities of Szeged and Csanád in the Ecclesiastical province of Kalocsa-Kecskemét in Hungary. The diocesan cathedral is the ...

Csanád
Csanád, also Chanadinus, or Cenad, was the first head ''(comes)'' of Csanád County in the Kingdom of Hungary in the first decades of the 11th century. Csanád defeated and killed Ajtony who had ruled over the region now known as Banat (in Romania and Serbia). Csanád County and its capital (Cenad, in Hungarian ''Csanád'') were named after him. Life The anonymous author of the 13th-century '' Gesta Ungarorum'' states that Csanád was the nephew of King Stephen I of Hungary (1000/1001-1038) ''(nepos regis)'' and his father's name was Doboka. According to the '' Long Life of St Gerard'', an early 14th-century compilation of different sources, Csanád was a pagan in the service of Ahtum. Ahtum, whose residence was at ''“urbs Morisena”'' on the river Mureș, controlled traffic along the river and taxed transport of salts from Transylvania to the heartland of Pannonia. It was in relation to salt that Ahtum found himself in conflict with Stephen, the newly proclaimed king ...
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Csanád County
Csanád was an administrative county ( comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory is now part of Hungary, except for a small area which is part of Romania. The capital of the county was Makó. Geography Csanád county shared borders with the Hungarian counties of Csongrád, Békés, Arad and Torontál. The river Maros ( Mureș) formed its southern border. Its area was 1,714 km2 around 1910. History The county's territory became part of the Kingdom of Hungary in the first half of the 11th century when Stephen I of Hungary defeated Ajtony, the local ruler. The county got its name after the commander of the royal army, Csanád. The king appointed Gerard of Csanád as the first bishop of Csanád. The county was initially much larger and included territories of the later Temes, Arad, and Torontál counties. The first seat of the county was Csanád (present-day Cenad, Romania). The county's territory became part of the Ottoman Empire in the 16th century. The s ...
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Cenad
Cenad ( hu, Nagycsanád, during the Dark Ages ''Marosvár''; german: Tschanad; sr, Чанад, Čanad; la, Chanadinum) is a commune in Timiș County, Romania. It is composed of a single village, Cenad. The village serves as a customs point on the border with Hungary. Today's village was formed by merging Cenadu Mare ("Great Cenad" or "Rascian Cenad"; hu, Ráccsanád; german: Raitzisch-Tschanad) and Cenadu Vechi ("Old Cenad" or "German Cenad"; hu, Németcsanád; german: Deutsch-Tschanad) in the 20th century. Geography Cenad is located in the west of Timiș County, on the left bank of the Mureș River, on the border with Hungary. It borders Igriș to the northeast, Saravale to the southeast, Sânnicolau Mare to the south, Dudeștii Vechi to the southwest and Beba Veche to the west. Climate The climate is temperate continental, with weak Mediterranean influences. It is manifested by milder winters and summers that are not excessively hot, the average annual temperature be ...
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