Kondoros () is a town in
Békés County
Békés (, , ) is an administrative division (county or ''vármegye'') in south-eastern Hungary, on the border with Romania. It shares borders with the Hungarian counties Csongrád-Csanád, Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok, and Hajdú-Bihar. The capital ...
, in the
Southern Great Plain
The Southern Great Plain ( ) is a statistical ( NUTS 2) region of Hungary. It is part of Great Plain and North (NUTS 1) region. The Southern Great Plain includes the counties of Bács-Kiskun, Békés, and Csongrád-Csanád. The region is in the ...
region
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of south-east
Hungary
Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning much of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia and ...
.
Jews lived in Kondorosh at the end of the 19th century and at the beginning of the 20th century, the local Jewish community was subordinate to the Szarvas community. In 1944, most of the city's Jews were murdered in the
Holocaust
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.
Geography
It covers an
area
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of 81.84 km² and has a
population
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of 5,355 people (2009).
Twin towns – sister cities
Kondoros is
twinned with:
*
Atid
Atid (, ) is a commune in Harghita County, Romania. It lies in the Székely Land, an ethno-cultural region in eastern Transylvania. The route of the Via Transilvanica long-distance trail passes through the village of Inlăceni, which is administ ...
, Romania
*
Gabčíkovo
Gabčíkovo (, ) is a town and municipality in the Dunajská Streda District, in the Trnava Region of southwestern Slovakia. It has 5,232 inhabitants of whom approximately 80% are Hungarians. After the Communist takeover of Czechoslovakia, the ...
, Slovakia
*
Hanhofen
Hanhofen is a municipality in the Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Sister-city
* Kondoros, Hungary
Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning much of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is border ...
, Germany
*
Kikinda
Kikinda ( sr-Cyrl, Кикинда, ; ) is a List of cities in Serbia, city and the administrative center of the North Banat District in Serbia. The city's urban area has 32,084 inhabitants, while the city administrative area has 49,326 inhabit ...
, Serbia
*
Tekovské Lužany, Slovakia
References
External links
* in Hungarian
Symbols of Hungary
Slovak communities in Hungary
Populated places in Békés County
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