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Salgótarján District
Salgótarján ( hu, Salgótarjáni járás) is a district in north-eastern part of Nógrád County. ''Salgótarján'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Northern Hungary, Northern Hungary Statistical Region. Geography Salgótarján District borders with the Slovakian region of Banská Bystrica Region, Banská Bystrica to the north, Ózd District ''(Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County)'' and Bátonyterenye District to the southeast, Pásztó District to the south, Szécsény District to the west. The number of the inhabited places in Salgótarján District is 29. Municipalities The district has 1 Town with county rights, urban county and 28 villages. (ordered by population, as of 1 January 2013) The bolded municipality is the city. Demographics In 2011, it had a population of 64,601 and the population density was 123/km². Ethnicity Besides the Hungarian majority, the main minorities are the Roma (approx. 5,500), Slovak ...
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Districts Of Hungary
Districts of Hungary are the second-level divisions of Hungary after counties. They replaced the 175 subregions of Hungary in 2013. Altogether, there are 174 districts in the 19 counties, and there are 23 districts in Budapest. Districts of the 19 counties are numbered by Arabic numerals and named after the district seat, while districts of Budapest are numbered by Roman numerals and named after the historical towns and neighbourhoods. In Hungarian, the districts of the capital and the rest of the country hold different titles. The districts of Budapest are called ''kerületek'' (lit. district, pl.) and the districts of the country are called ''járások.'' By county Baranya County Bács-Kiskun County Békés County Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County Csongrád-Csanád County Fejér County Győr-Moson-Sopron County Hajdú-Bihar County Heves County Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County Komárom-Esztergom County Nógrád County Pest County ...
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Etes
Etes is a village in Nógrád County, 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, Croatia a .... References External links Street map Populated places in Nógrád County {{Nograd-geo-stub ...
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Mátraszele
Mátraszele is a village in Nógrád County, Hungary, the Zagyva river flows through the settlement. As of 2022 census, it has a population of 904 (see Demographics). The village located 8.5 km from (Nr. 81) Hatvan–Fiľakovo railway line, 12.0 km far from Salgótarján, 10.4 km from the main road 21 and 52.8 km from the M3 motorway. The closest train station with public transport in Bátonyterenye 10.4 km far. History The name of Mátraszele was mentioned for the first time between 1304-1321 in a deed as the property of the Rátót clan under the names ''Fel-Szele'' and ''Al-Szele''. It became the property of the in 1449. Pál Jánossy and Lestár Feleki owned it on 1548. The fate of the settlement in the 17th century is unknown. In Mátraszele were 10 families in 1715, and 9 families in 1720. At the beginning of the 19th century, it was owned by Count Pál Lázár and the Oláh family. At the end of the 19th century, several coal mines were opened, which were owned by the No ...
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Márkháza
Márkháza is a village in Nógrád County, Hungary. It is located 15 kilometers from Salgótarján in the Kis Zagyva Valley. The village is believed to have been named after Mark, the son of one of the owners of Fehérkő Castle. It was first mentioned in writing in 1548, when it was destroyed by Turkish troops. Afterwards, it was known as Tótmarokháza, indicating a Slovak presence and influence in the village. Historically, the village's primary industry was coal mining Coal mining is the process of extracting coal from the ground. Coal is valued for its energy content and since the 1880s has been widely used to generate electricity. Steel and cement industries use coal as a fuel for extraction of iron from .... References National and Historical Symbols of Hungary {{DEFAULTSORT:Markhaza Populated places in Nógrád County ...
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Kisbárkány
Kisbárkány is a village in Nógrád County, Hungary with 161 inhabitants (2014). The village is located in a narrow valley between the wooded hills of the Cserhát Cserhát () is a mountain range in Hungary, part of the North Hungarian Mountains, divided between Pest and Nógrád counties. Its highest point is the Naszály with an elevation of 654 metres above sea level. Cserhát stretches from Cserhát .... The population is Hungarian but the village also has some homeowners from Western European countries. In the wide valley adjacent to Kisbárkány, at the end of a dead end road, lies Bedepuszta, a small hamlet used as event village for international events, like Sziget Detox/Sziget Retreat. In WWII the Bede valley was playground for a battle between the Russian and German army. A monument to the fallen Russians can be found in Bedepuszta. Populated places in Nógrád County {{Nograd-geo-stub ...
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