Maglód is a town in
Pest County,
Budapest metropolitan area
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,
Hungary.
History
The name of Maglód was first mentioned in about 1200 by
Anonymus in his narrative, according to which the grandfathers of the seventh leader of the conquest,
Tétény (
hu), were Gyula and Zombor, from whom the inhabitants of Maglód descend.
In the 14th century Maglód was the property of the Kátai and Bodonyi families. During the period of
Ottoman Hungary and during
Rákóczi's War of Independence
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, the village was depopulated. The town was reinstated after 1710, with its new inhabitants composed mainly of Slovakian serfs from
Nógrád. In the 18th century, the
Fáy (
hu) and
Ráday Ráday is a Hungarian surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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* Gedeon Ráday (writer) (171392), Hungarian poet, translator and politician, see Ferenc Kazinczy
*Gedeon Ráday ...
(
hu) families owned the village.
On 1 July 2007 the village was given the status of town.
Notable people
*
Lajos Takács, mathematician
Transportation
Maglód can be reached by bus or train.
Demographics
*The ethnic composition of the population: 98% Hungarian, 1.5% Slovak, 0.5% other (Gypsy, German, Romanian)
*Religious composition of the population: Catholic 43%, Evangelical 18%, Reformed 13%, Other or Unknown 26%
*With secondary education: 33% of the population
*With higher education: 7.8% (2001)
Sights
* Petőfi statue
* Trianon monument
Twin towns – sister cities
Maglód is
twinned
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* In biology and agriculture, producing two offspring (i.e., twins) at a time, or having a tendency to do so;
* Twin towns and sister cities, towns and cities involved in town twinning
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with:
*
Bene, Ukraine
*
Dlhá Ves, Slovakia
*
Lueta
Lueta ( hu, Lövéte, Hungarian pronunciation: ) is a commune in Harghita County, Romania. It lies in the Székely Land, an ethno-cultural region in eastern Transylvania, and is composed of two villages:
*Băile Chirui / Kirulyfürdő
* Lueta ...
, Romania
*
Mýtne Ludany, Slovakia
References
External links
* in Hungarian
Populated places in Pest County
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