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Toroczkai László
Toroczkai is a Hungarian surname, where ''Torockó'' is a Hungarian name of Romanian Rimetea Rimetea (until 1925 ''Trascău''; ; ) is a commune located in Alba County, Transylvania, Romania. It is composed of two villages, Colțești (formerly ''Sângeorzul Trascăului''; ''Torockószentgyörgy''; ''Sankt Georgen'') and Rimetea. A forme .... Notable people with the surname include: * László Toroczkai (born 1978), Hungarian politician and journalist * Máté Toroczkai (1553–1616), Hungarian bishop {{surname Hungarian-language surnames ...
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Hungarian Surname
Hungarian names include surnames and given names. Some people have more than one given name, but only one is normally used. In the Hungarian language, whether written or spoken, names are invariably given in the "Eastern name order", with the family name followed by the given name (in foreign-language texts in languages that use Western name order, names are often given with the family name last). Hungarian is one of the few national languages in Europe to use the Eastern name order, like Chinese names, Chinese, Japanese names, Japanese, Korean names, Korean, Vietnamese names, Vietnamese, Cambodian name, Khmer and some Basque names, Basque nationalists. Orthography Although Hungarian alphabet, Hungarian orthography is now simpler than it was in the 18th and the 19th centuries, many Hungarians still use the old spelling for their names. For example, the letter ''c'' is often written as ''cz''. Letters such as ''q'', ''w'', ''x'' and ''y'' are usually seen only in foreign words bu ...
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Rimetea
Rimetea (until 1925 ''Trascău''; ; ) is a commune located in Alba County, Transylvania, Romania. It is composed of two villages, Colțești (formerly ''Sângeorzul Trascăului''; ''Torockószentgyörgy''; ''Sankt Georgen'') and Rimetea. A former mining town, today it is known as the location of the Piatra Secuiului (Hungarian: ''Székelykő'', lit. " Rock of the Szeklers") mountain. As of 2011, Rimetea had a majority Hungarian population, at 85%. The village has a strong cultural significance for Hungarians and Transylvanian-Hungarians, and is home to a Szekler ethnographic museum. In 1999, the village was given the Europa Nostra award. Geography Rimetea lies in the Apuseni Mountains of central Transylvania, in a valley north of Aiud. The village rests at an altitude of , on the banks of the river Rimetea. It is nestled between the peaks of Piatra Secuiului () and Ardașcheia (), in the Trascău Mountains. The distinct location of Rimetea at the bottom of Piatra Secuiul ...
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László Toroczkai
László Toroczkai (born 10 March 1978) is a Hungarian politician, journalist, leader of the Far-right politics, far-right Our Homeland Movement political party, and former mayor of Ásotthalom. He is also a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, and vice-president of Board of the Hungarian National Group of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (2022-2026). Also chairman of Hungary-Bahrain Friendship Group 2022- and chairman of Hungary-Rwanda Friendship Group 2022- He is also a founding member of the Sixty-Four Counties Youth Movement, HVIM youth organization, the ''Hunnia'' national radical movement, and former Vice President of Jobbik. Between 2002 and 2013 he served as editor-in-chief of the ''Magyar Jelen'' newspaper. From 1999 to 2002 he was an editor-reporter of the Hungarian Radio. Family Treaty of Trianon, The Treaty of Trianon heavily impacted on his family. Ancestors from his mother's side were expelled from Rimetea, Trascău and Cluj; ancestors fro ...
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Máté Toroczkai
Máté Torockai (1553 in Torockó – 1616 in Kolozsvár) was the fifth bishop of the Unitarian Church in Kolozsvár (today: ''Cluj-Napoca, Romania''). He translated many of the Latin works of György Enyedi into Hungarian.György Enyedi and Central European Unitarianism in the 16-17th Centuries Mihály Balázs Mihály Balázs (born 1948) is a Hungarian Catholic historian and professor of religious history at the University of Szeged. He is widely regarded as an expert on the religious history of Hungarian-speaking Transylvania Transylvania ( or ; ..., Gizella Keserű - 2000 It was translated into Hungarian by Máté Toroczkai and published in 1619 with the financial support of István Bethlen, the brother of Gábor Bethlen, the great prince of Transylvania. Máté Toroczkai had an important role in the . References Hungarian Unitarians 1553 births 1616 deaths People from Alba County {{Hungary-reli-bio-stub ...
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