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Tamási
Tamási is a town in Tolna County, Hungary, and is located just 30 kilometers east of Lake Balaton. Tamási is named after St. Thomas and has a population of approximately 9,200 people. Tamási was founded during the Roman era and primarily focused on agriculture. The town has a history of various conquerors including the Turks from 1525 to 1665 and the Austrians from 1848 to 1849. The town has many ruins and the town centre has a Catholic church that was built on the ruins of a temple built during the time of ancient Rome. The Soviet Army controlled the town from 1945 to 1989 until the Soviet Eastern Bloc fell. Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Tamási and Hungary as a whole have been governed as a parliamentary democracy with free elections. Hungary is a member of both NATO and the European Union. The famous Estherházy family once owned the Gyulaj Forest wild animal preserve, which is one of the area's notable natural features for hunting. During the Communist per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tamási District
Tamási () is a district in north-western part of Tolna County in Hungary. ''Tamási'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Southern Transdanubia Statistical Region. Geography Tamási District borders with Enying District and Sárbogárd District ''(Fejér County)'' to the north, Paks District and Szekszárd District to the east, Bonyhád District and Hegyhát District ''(Baranya County)'' to the south, Dombóvár District to the southwest, Tab District and Siófok District ''(Somogy County)'' to the west. The number of the inhabited places in Tamási District is 32. Municipalities The district has 3 towns, 2 large villages and 27 villages. (ordered by population, as of 1 January 2013) The bolded municipalities are cities, ''italics'' municipalities are large villages. See also *List of cities and towns in Hungary Hungary has 3,152 Municipality, municipalities as of July 15, 2013: 346 towns (Hungarian term: , pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tolna County
Tolna (, ; ) is an administrative county (Comitatus (Kingdom of Hungary), comitatus or vármegye) in present-day Hungary as it was in the former Kingdom of Hungary. It lies in central Hungary, on the west bank of the river Danube. It shares borders with the Hungarian counties of Somogy County, Somogy, Fejér, Bács-Kiskun, and Baranya (county), Baranya. The capital of Tolna county is Szekszárd. Its area is 3,703 km2. History Tolna (in Latin: ''comitatus Tolnensis'') was also the name of a historic administrative county (Comitatus (Kingdom of Hungary), comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory, which was about the same as that of the present Tolna county, is now in central Hungary. The capital of the county was Szekszárd. Demographics In 2015, Tolna had a population of 225,936 and the population density was . Ethnicity Besides the Hungarian majority, the main minorities are the Germans (approx. 10,000) and Roma (8,500). Total population (2011 census): 230,3 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Districts Of Hungary
Districts of Hungary are the second-level divisions of Hungary after counties. They replaced the 175 subregions of Hungary in 2013. 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 Somogy C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernie Konnyu
Ernest Leslie Konnyu (born May 17, 1937) is an American businessman and former Republican U.S. Representative from Silicon Valley, California, 12th congressional district, serving one term from 1987 to 1989. He had previously been a California State Assembly Member from the 22nd district, serving from 1980 to 1986. Early life Ernõ "Ernie" Könnyű was born May 17, 1937, in Tamási, Kingdom of Hungary (present-day Tamási, Hungary) to poet, professor and cartographer Leslie Konnyu and Leslie's wife, Elizabeth, a bookkeeper and owner of a home secretarial school, and is the eldest of his two late siblings Gabriela (Helen) and Zoltan (Joseph). In 1949 the 12-year-old Konnyu, together with his family, immigrated to the United States from a post-World War II refugee camp in Ampflwang, Austria. He attended parochial and public schools in Jefferson City and St. Louis, Missouri. He attended University of Maryland, College Park and received his Bachelor of Science degree from Ohio State U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrea Osvárt
Andrea Klára Osvárt (born 25 April 1979) is a Hungarian actress, film producer, and former fashion model. Personal life She was born in Budapest and grew up in Tamási, a small town in the south of Hungary. Her parents divorced when she was five. Her father is a veterinarian. She has four siblings: Judit, Roxána, András, and Márton. Osvárt attended N.2. Public School in Tamási, Zoltán Kodály Italian-Hungarian High School, and majored in Italian studies at the Faculty of Humanities of Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. She is fluent in Hungarian, English and Italian, and speaks some German and French. Career She began modeling at the age of 16 and subsequently came second in the Hungarian "Look of the Year" competition in 1996. She moved to Budapest and began modeling professionally in Europe, Asia, and North America. She has also made more than 30 television commercials. She played a small role in the film ''Spy Game'', which starred Robert Redford and Brad Pi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isernhagen
Isernhagen (; Eastphalian dialect, Eastphalian: ''Isernhogen'') is a municipality in the Hanover (district), district of Hanover, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated in the north-east of Hanover. According to the average income per capita it is the most affluent municipality in Lower Saxony. Bundesautobahn 7 passes through the municipality. It is adjacent to Burgwedel, Burgdorf, Hanover, Burgdorf, Lehrte, Hanover, Hannover, Langenhagen and Wedemark. Division of the municipality Isernhagen consists of 7 districts: * Niedernhägener Bauerschaft (common abbreviation: NB) * Kircher Bauerschaft (common abbreviation: KB) * Farster Bauernschaft (common abbreviation: FB) * Hohenhorster Bauerschaft (common abbreviation: HB) * Altwarmbüchen * Neuwarmbüchen, including Gartenstadt Lohne * Kirchhorst, including Großhorst and Stelle Twinned with Peacehaven in East Sussex, Épinay-sous-Sénart in France, Suchy Las in Poland and Tamási in Hungary. History Name The firs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Cities And Towns Of Hungary
Hungary has 3,152 Municipality, municipalities as of July 15, 2013: 346 towns (Hungarian term: , plural: ; the terminology does not distinguish between city, cities and towns – the term town is used in official translations) and 2,806 villages (Hungarian: , plural: ) of which 126 are classified as large villages (Hungarian: , plural: ). The number of towns can change, since villages can be elevated to town status by act of the President. The capital Budapest has a special status and is not included in any county while 25 of the towns are so-called City with county rights, cities with county rights. All county seats except Budapest are cities with county rights. Four of the cities (Budapest, Miskolc, Győr, and Pécs) have agglomerations, and the Hungarian Statistical Office distinguishes seventeen other areas in earlier stages of agglomeration development. The largest city is the capital, Budapest, while the smallest town is Pálháza with 1038 inhabitants (2010). The larg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volgodonsk
Volgodonsk (, ) is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, city in Rostov Oblast, Russia, located in the east of the oblast on the west bank of the Tsimlyansk Reservoir. Population: 28,000 (1970). History Volgodonsk was founded in 1950 as a small settlement for the Tsimlyansk hydroelectric dam maintenance personnel. It grew in size due to the construction of the Volga–Don Canal. On September 16, 1999, a powerful Car bomb, truck bomb exploded outside an apartment building, killing 17 people and injuring a further 69. It was the fourth explosion in a series of Russian apartment bombings, apartment bombings in Russia that killed more than 300 people. Administrative and municipal status Within the subdivisions of Russia#Administrative divisions, framework of administrative divisions, it is incorporated as Volgodonsk City of federal subject significance, Urban Okrug—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the administrative divisions of Rostov Oblast, distr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wurzen
Wurzen () is a town in the district Leipzig (district), Leipzig Land (voting) and Muldental (number plates), in Saxony, Germany. It is situated next to the river Mulde, here crossed by two bridges, 25 km east of Leipzig, by rail N.E. of Leipzig Leipzig–Dresden railway, on the main line via Riesa to Dresden. It has a cathedral dating from the twelfth century, a castle, at one time a residence of the bishops of Meissen and later utilized as law courts, several schools, an agricultural college and a police station including a prison. History Founded after 600 by Slavic peoples, Slavs, Wurzen is first mentioned in the act of donation from Otto I in 961 as a "Burgward" civitas vurcine. Situated in the "anderen Gau Neletici", it was a town early in the twelfth century when Herwig of Meissen, Herwig, bishop of Meissen, founded a Collegiate church here. In 1581 it passed to the elector of Saxony. During the Thirty Years' War (1637) it was sacked by the Sweden, Swedish army and burned ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montigny-en-Gohelle
Montigny-en-Gohelle (, ) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France east of Lens. Population Twin Towns * Hrastnik * Stollberg * Johannesburg * Tamási * Ruda Śląska See also *Communes of the Pas-de-Calais department The following is a list of the 887 communes of the Pas-de-Calais department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2025): References External links Official town website An unofficial town website [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Esterházy
The House of Esterházy, also spelled Eszterházy (), is a Hungarian nobility, Hungarian noble family with origins in the Middle Ages. From the 17th century, the Esterházys were the greatest landowner magnates of the Kingdom of Hungary, during the time that it was part of the Habsburg monarchy and later Austria-Hungary. During the history of the Habsburg Empire, the Esterházy family were consistently loyal to the House of Habsburg, Habsburg rulers. The Esterházys received the title of ''Graf'' (Count) in 1626, and the Forchtenstein line received the title of ''Fürst'' (Prince) from the Holy Roman Emperor in 1712. History The Esterházys arose among the minor Hungarian nobility, nobility of the northern part of the Kingdom of Hungary (today's southwest Slovakia), originally a branch of the Salamon (surname), Salamon clan (''de genere Salamon'') by the name ''Zerházi'' (''de Zerhásház'' / ''de Zyrház'' / ''de Zyrhas''). Their first known ancestor was Mokud (Mocud) from th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bacău County
Bacău County () is a county (județ) of Romania, in Western Moldavia, with its capital city at Bacău. It has one commune, Ghimeș-Făget, in Transylvania. Geography This county has a total area of . In the western part of the county there are mountains from the Divisions of the Carpathians, Eastern Carpathian group. Here, along the valleys of the Oituz (river), Oituz River and Trotuș, Trotuș River, there are two important links between Moldavia and Transylvania. On the East side, the heights decrease and the lowest point can be found on the Siret River valley which crosses the county from North to South down the middle. On the East side there is the Moldavian Plateau crossed by many small rivers. Flora and fauna Bears, wolves, foxes, wild boars, and squirrels inhabit Bacău County's mountains, particularly in its rural Slănic-Moldova region; the remnants of the local deer are preserved in Mănăstirea Cașin. Neighbours *Vaslui County in the East. *Harghita County and C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
