Name
''Bottyán (disambiguation), Bottyán'' is an old Hungarian given name for boys, meaning mace (bludgeon), mace.János Ladó - Ágnes Bíró: Magyar utónévkönyv ("Book of Hungarian given names"), Vince Kiadó, Budapest, 2005, Prefix ''Őr'' literally means "guard" in Hungarian language, Hungarian and refers to the nearby hill ''Őrhegy'', which was a fortress in the Middle Ages.Geography
Őrbottyán lies from the center of Budapest at the foot of Gödöllő Hills, in the north-eastern sector of the Budapest metropolitan area. It lies km from M0 motorway (Hungary), M0, km from M2 motorway (Hungary), M2 and from M3 motorway (Hungary), M3 motorway. Budapest-Veresegyház-Vác suburban railway line crosses the town.History
Őrbottyán was created in 1970 with the unification of two small villages, named ''Őrszentmiklós'' and ''Vácbottyán''.Magyarország történeti statisztikai helységnévtára (Historical Gazetteer of Hungary), 15. Pest megye (Pest County), Központi Statisztikai Hivatal (Hungarian Central Statistical Office), Budapest, 2000, pp. 146/205 Őrszentmiklós first mentioned in 1344 as ''villa Sancti Nicolai'' (Latin for Village of Saint Nicholas) and in 1390 as ''Zenth Myklos'' (Hungarian language, Hungarian for Saint Nicholas). Vácbottyán first mentioned in 1332 as ''Botuna'' (old version of Bottyán) and in 1376 as ''Bathyan''. According to the Hungarian Royal Treasury, the region was inhabited by ethnic Hungarians in 1495.Károly Kocsis (DSc, University of Miskolc) – Zsolt Bottlik (PhD, Budapest University) – Patrik Tátrai: Etnikai térfolyamatok a Kárpát-medence határon túli régióiban, Magyar Tudományos Akadémia (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) – Földrajtudományi Kutatóintézet (Academy of Geographical Studies); Budapest; 2006.; , CD Atlas The area became devastated due to the Ottoman Hungary, Ottoman wars in the 17th century, when Christians liberated the area in the 1680s they found only a few family in Őrszentmiklós, Vácbottyán was uninhabited. Őrszentmiklós resettled by Calvinist and Roman Catholic Hungarians, while Vácbottyán was rebuilt by Lutheran Slovaks and Roman Catholic Hungarians in the 18th century. Later Slovaks adopted Hungarian language and they Cultural assimilation, assimilated into the Hungarian majority.Demographics
According to the 2011 census the total population of Őrbottyán was 7,102, of whom there were 6,159 (86.7%) Hungarians, 44 (0.6%) Germans and 40 (0.6%) Romani people, Romani, while 937 people (13.2%) did not declare their ethnicity. Excluding these people Hungarians made up 99.9% of the total population. In Hungary people can declare more than one ethnicity, so some people declared Hungarian and a minority one together. In 2011 there were 1,903 (26.8%) Roman Catholic, 1,063 (15.0%) Hungarian Reformed (Calvinist) and 140 (2.0%) Lutheran in Őrbottyán. 1,351 people (19.0%) were irreligious and 187 (2.6%) Atheist, while 2,133 people (30.0%) did not declare their religion. In 2011 there were 2,622 dwellings (houses) in Őrbottyán with an average floor space of 92 m2, which is higher than the national average (77 m2). The average gross personal income for an employee was 1,947,000 Hungarian forint, HUF in 2011, higher than the national average (1,869,000 HUF).References
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