Elek (, ) is a town in
Békés County
Békés (, , ro, Județul Bichiș) is an administrative division (county or ''megye'') in south-eastern Hungary, on the border with Romania. It shares borders with the Hungarian counties Csongrád, Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok, and Hajdú-Bihar. The ...
, in the
Southern Great Plain
The Southern Great Plain ( hu, Dél-Alföld) is a statistical ( NUTS 2) region of Hungary. It is part of Great Plain and North (NUTS 1) region. The Southern Great Plain includes three counties:
* Bács-Kiskun
* Békés
* Csongrád-Csanád
See ...
region of south-east
Hungary
Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning 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 ...
.
Jews lived in the city as early as the 19th century and in 1944 many of them were murdered by the Nazis in the Holocaust.
Hungarian Jewish census
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Geography
The town covers an area of and had a population of 5,567 in 2002.
History
* 1232 : First mentioned
* 1566-1696 : Ottoman rule ( Ottoman wars in Europe)
* 1724 : settling of German colonists (predominantly from Franconia
Franconia (german: Franken, ; Franconian dialect: ''Franggn'' ; bar, Frankn) is a region of Germany, characterised by its culture and Franconian languages, Franconian dialect (German: ''Fränkisch'').
The three Regierungsbezirk, administrative ...
)
* 1739 : Bubonic plague
* 1894 : Artesian aquifer
An artesian aquifer is a confined aquifer containing groundwater under positive pressure. An artesian aquifer has trapped water, surrounded by layers of impermeable rock or clay, which apply positive pressure to the water contained within t ...
* 1920 : Elek becomes border town (Treaty of Trianon
The Treaty of Trianon (french: Traité de Trianon, hu, Trianoni békeszerződés, it, Trattato del Trianon) was prepared at the Paris Peace Conference and was signed in the Grand Trianon château in Versailles on 4 June 1920. It forma ...
)
* 1946 : Expulsion of German inhabitants, about half the population
* 1996 : Elek given town status
Twin towns
Elek is twinned with:
* Gerolzhofen
Gerolzhofen () is a town in the district of Schweinfurt, Bavaria, Germany. The town is the former center of the district of Gerolzhofen and has about 7,000 inhabitants. The mayor of Gerolzhofen is Thorsten Wozniak (CSU).
GerolzhofenStadtpfarrkirc ...
, Germany (1990)
* Alerheim
Alerheim is a municipality in the district of Donau-Ries in Bavaria in Germany.
Mayor
In January 2022 Alexander Joas was elected mayor. He succeeded Christoph Schmid, who had been in office since 2008.
Sons and daughters of the community
* J ...
, Germany (1992)
* Leimen, Germany (1992)
* Sebiș
Sebiș ( hu, Borossebes) is a town in Arad County, western Transylvania, Romania. Situated 82 km from the county capital, Sebiș is one of the most important urban centres in the Crișul Alb valley. It administers three villages: Donceni (' ...
(Borossebes), Romania (1992)
* Gerlingen
Gerlingen (Swabian: ''Gaerlenge'') is a town in the district of Ludwigsburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated 9 km west of Stuttgart, and 15 km southwest of Ludwigsburg. Gerlingen is home to Bosch, a major engineering and ...
, Germany
* Laudenbach, Germany (1994)
* Veľké Kapušany
Veľké Kapušany (; hu, Nagykapos) is a small town on the eastern plains of Slovakia, not far from the Ukrainian border.
Name
The name "Kapušany" is probably derived from the Hungarian word ''kapu'', meaning "gate".
History
The territory of t ...
(Nagykapocs), Slovakia (1996)
* Grăniceri
Grăniceri ( hu, Ottlaka, sr, Graničar) is a commune in Arad County, Romania
Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern, and Southeast Europe, Southeastern Euro ...
(Ottlaka), Romania (1997)
* Dumbrava (Igazfalva), Romania (2019)
References
External links
* in Hungarian
Populated places in Békés County
Romanian communities in Hungary
Jewish communities destroyed in the Holocaust
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