Biatorbágy () is a town in Pest County,

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. It has a population of 13,889 (2019). It was created in 1966 by the merger of Bia (German: Wiehall) and Torbágy (German: Kleinturwall).

Districts

* Bia () * Torbágy ()

History

On 13 September 1931 a demented man (

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) blasted the train to

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on the viaduct of Biatorbágy. Killing 22 and injuring up to 122 people, 17 severely, it has been the most notorious sabotage on his crime history.

Sport

Biatorbágyi SE Biatorbágyi Sport Egyesület is a professional football club based in Biatorbágy, Pest County, Hungary Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning much of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovak ...

, association football club

Twin towns – sister cities

Biatorbágy is twinned with: *

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, Germany (1989) * Remetea, Romania (2001) * Kiti, Cyprus (2004) *

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, Slovakia (2012) *

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, Ukraine (2013)

Notable people

* Ferenc Juhász (1928–2015), poet * Gyula Juhász (1930–1993), historian * Csaba Horváth (born 1971), canoeist

References

External links

* in Hungarian, English and German Hungarian German communities Populated places in Pest County Budapest metropolitan area {{Pest-geo-stub