Sarkad 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 ...
,
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 ...
.
Location
* on the right bank of
Fekete-Körös river
* 14 km north of
Gyula
Twin towns – sister cities
Sarkad is
twinned with:
*
Baraolt
Baraolt (; , ) is a town and administrative district in Covasna County, Romania. It lies in the Székely Land, an ethno-cultural region in eastern Transylvania. The town was mentioned for the first time as a settlement in 1224. It administers fiv ...
, Romania
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Niestetal
Niestetal is a municipality in the district of Kassel, in Hesse, Germany. It is situated on the eastern bank of the Fulda, 4 km east of Kassel
Kassel (; in Germany, spelled Cassel until 1926) is a city on the Fulda River in North Hesse, no ...
, Germany
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Salonta
Salonta (; , colloquially , ; ) is a municipiu, city in Bihor County, in the geographical region of Crișana, north-western Romania, near the Hungarian border.
Population
According to the 2021 Romanian census, 2021 census, Salonta has a popu ...
, Romania
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Snagov
Snagov is a commune, located north of Bucharest, in Ilfov County, Muntenia, Romania. The commune is composed of five villages: Ciofliceni, Ghermănești, Snagov, Tâncăbești, and Vlădiceasca. Snagov is a tourist and spa resort, but the nec ...
, Romania
Notable people
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Sándor Képíró
Sándor Képíró (18 February 19143 September 2011) was a Hungarian gendarmerie captain during World War II accused of war crimes committed by Royal Hungarian Army, Hungarian forces.
Wartime career
A police officer in the Hungarian gendarmerie, ...
, gendarmerie captain
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Loránd Kesztyűs
Loránd Kesztyűs ( Sarkad, Hungary, 11 April 1915 − Debrecen, Hungary, 17 August 1979) was a Hungarian physician, immunologist, pathophysiologist, a full member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
Career
He studied at the University of D ...
, physician, immunologist, and pathophysiologist
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Sándor Kónya
Sándor Kónya (23 September 1923 – 20 May 2002) was a Hungarian tenor, particularly associated with German and Italian roles, especially Lohengrin and Calaf.
Biography
Kónya was born in Sarkad, Hungary, and began his vocal studies at the ...
, opera singer
References
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External links
* in Hungarian
Populated places in Békés County
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