Egercsehi is a village in

Heves County Heves county ( hu, Heves megye, ) lies in northern Hungary, between the right bank of the river Tisza and the Mátra and Bükk mountains. It shares borders with the Hungarian counties Pest, Nógrád, Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén and Jász-Nagykun-S ...

Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croa ...

. As of 2015, it has a population of 1,320, and 1,281 as of the 2021 estimate.

History

The earliest written record of the village dates back to 1285.

The jewish community

Jews lived in the village in the 18th and 19th centuries until 1944, when most of the Jews from the village were murdered in the Holocaust. In the area of the village, the Nazis concentrated many Jews from the area, including the Jews of the village of

Kál Kál is a large village in Heves County, Hungary. As of 2015, it has a population of 3,519, and 3,359 as of the 2021 estimate. History The earliest written record of the village dates back to 1331, and was already inhabited before the Hungarian ...

and

Pétervására Pétervására is a town in Heves county, Hungary. It is famous for its Keglevich Castle. Pétervására features Medici lion statues (of unknown origin). :commons:Statues of lions in Pétervására Twin towns – sister cities Pétervására i ...

Demographics

According the 2011 census, 82.3% of the population were of Hungarian ethnicity and 8.4% were

Gypsies The Romani (also spelled Romany or Rromani , ), colloquially known as the Roma, are an Indo-Aryan ethnic group, traditionally nomadic itinerants. They live in Europe and Anatolia, and have diaspora populations located worldwide, with sig ...

, 17.6% were undeclared, and 0.5% were German (due to dual identities, the total may be higher than 100%). The religious distribution was as follows: Roman Catholic 33%, Reformed 3.6%, Lutheran 0.4%, Greek Catholic 0.4%, non-denominational 26.8%, and 34.4% unknown.

Notable people

Born in Egercsehi

* Pál Medgyessy (1919–1977) mathematician

References

External links

* in Hungarian, English, German and Polish Populated places in Heves County {{Heves-geo-stub