Hatvan is a town in

Heves county Heves county ( hu, Heves megye, ) lies in northern Hungary, between the right bank of the river Tisza and the Mátra and Bükk mountains. It shares borders with the Hungarian counties Pest, Nógrád, Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén and Jász-Nagykun ...

Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Cr ...

. Hatvan is the Hungarian word for "sixty".

Etymology

Hatvan is the Hungarian word for "sixty". It is a common urban legend that the town got this name because it is 60 km from

Budapest Budapest (, ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Hungary. It is the ninth-largest city in the European Union by population within city limits and the second-largest city on the Danube river; the city has an estimated population o ...

, but in fact the name is already mentioned in medieval sources, many years before the kilometre existed; also, the actual distance between the capital and the town is closer to 50 km.

Sport

The

association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

club FC Hatvan is based in Hatvan.

Twin towns – sister cities

Hatvan is twinned with: * Barberino Tavarnelle, Italy * Berehove, Ukraine *

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References

External links

* in Hungarian * Populated places in Heves County {{Heves-geo-stub