Szikszó is a small

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in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county, Northern

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, from county capital

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History

Szikszó was first mentioned in documents in 1280. It belonged to the estate of the Aba clan. After 1370 Aba Estates in the area became the property of King Sigismund and then of Queen

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. At this time Szikszó was already a royal town. The

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church of the town was also built around this time. In the 16th century Szikszó and its landowners converted to the

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faith and its church became a Protestant one. During the Ottoman occupation of Hungary the town was ransacked and burnt down several times. The citizens fortified the strongest building of the town, the church. Several battles of the

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were fought in and around the town. In 1588 there was a battle near the town, where the Hungarian army defeated the Turks. In 1679 the town witnessed another battle, this time against the imperial army of the

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s; this battle too brought Hungarian victory but the imperials burnt down the town as revenge. During the freedom fight against Habsburg rule in 1848, a third battle was fought near Szikszó. Again the Hungarians won. In 1852, a house caught fire and the whole town burnt down. Rebuilding the town was very expensive and the citizens couldn't afford the expenses of Szikszó being classified as a town, so in 1866, they asked the government to re-classify Szikszó as a

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. In 1920, after the

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(Kassa in Hungarian) became part of

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, and Szikszó became the capital of Abaúj-Torna county. It held this rank until the unification of the three counties created Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county. During

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, Szikszó was captured by

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troops of the

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on 30 November 1944 in the course of the Budapest Offensive. In 1989 Szikszó was granted town status again.

Education

Szepsi Csombor Márton High School Szepsi Csombor Márton High School is located in Szikszó, the North-Eastern part of Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the no ...

Tourist sights

* Bethania manor * Gothic Protestant Church * Wine cellars

Gallery

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Twin towns – sister cities

Szikszó is twinned with: * Dro, Italy *

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, Romania *

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, Poland *

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, Germany

References

External links

* in Hungarian
Aerial photographs
{{DEFAULTSORT:Szikszo Populated places in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County