Budaörs (; ; , or ; ) is a town in Pest County,

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Location

A suburb of

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, the town lies among the

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and

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hills and the Tétény plateau in the Budaörs-basin. The dramatic ''Törökugrató'' hill (''Türkensprung'' in German) rises above the town.

History

The first settlements of the area date from 3500 BC. Excavations near the Hosszúrét creek resulted in findings from the

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(1900 BC to 800 BC). Before the

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ic Eraviscus tribe occupied the area for about 100 years. Several

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s have been recovered from the

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around Kamaraerdő . Little is known of the early history of the settlement after the Hungarian conquest. The name originates from the name of one of the

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tribes that joined the Hungarians. The first written mention of Örs dates from 1236 when

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, king of

donated a church together with the St. Martin chapel to the

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. Under the Turkish occupation during Ottoman rule the area was uninhabited and was resettled by Schwab peasants in the early 18th century by the countess Zsuzsanna Bercsényi. While at the end of the 18th century only 1143 peasants lived here, in 40 years the number tripled.

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affected the town badly, and it was the scene of a short fight between Hungarian royalists and the government in the Battle of Budaörs on 23–24 October 1921. After

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, it was at Budaörs where the

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begun forcing ethnic

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to leave their homes. , Budaörs had a population of 26,400.

Visitor attractions

* Jakob Bleyer Museum of Local History, a museum which chronicles the history of the German settlers in Budaörs. * Roman Catholic Church, a baroque church built between 1801 and 1810.

Notable residents

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(born 1952), Hungarian German mathematician, auditor, tax consultant, politician * József Seregi (born 1939), sculptor and ceramist * Margit Vanek (born 1984), triathlete * Georg Müller (1917–2004), Hungarian-born German agriculturalist

Twin towns – sister cities

Budaörs is twinned with: *

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, Germany *

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, Serbia *

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, Slovakia *

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, Croatia * Pyrgos, Greece *

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, Italy *

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, Romania *

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, Poland

References

External links

* in Hungarian, English and German
Street map

Jakob Bleyer Museum of Local History website
Populated places in Pest County Budapest metropolitan area Hungarian German communities {{Pest-geo-stub