Tét (german: Tietzing) is a town in

Győr-Moson-Sopron county Győr-Moson-Sopron ( hu, Győr-Moson-Sopron megye, ; german: Komitat Raab-Wieselburg-Ödenburg; sk, Rábsko-mošonsko-šopronská župa) is an administrative county (comitatus or '' megye'') in north-western Hungary, on the border with Slovakia ( ...

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. It is located between the town of Pápa (21 km north) and the city of Győr (24 km south) in the Little Hungarian Plain. According to 1990 census it used to have 4,252 inhabitants, nearly all of them Hungarian by ethnicity. Neighbouring settlements are: Rábaszentmihály, Kisbabot, Rábaszentmiklós, Mórichida, Gyömöre, Felpéc, Győrszemere and the city of Győr.

History

In 1910 Tét was a village in the Sokoróalja district of the Győr County with 4,111 inhabitants. In terms of religion: 1,935 citizens (47,1%) were Lutheran, 1,890 (46,0%) Roman Catholic, 432 (10,5%) Jewish and 52 (1,3%) others. Tét population grew steadily in the interwar period. Notably, the Jews of Tét were forced into a transit ghetto and then sent aboard

Holocaust trains Holocaust trains were railway transports run by the ''Deutsche Reichsbahn'' national railway system under the control of Nazi Germany and its allies, for the purpose of forcible deportation of the Jews, as well as other victims of the Holocaus ...

to the Auschwitz concentration camp during

the Holocaust The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; ...

. They are featured in the Auschwitz Album, the only surviving pictorial evidence of the extermination process from inside Birkenau. Tét received town rights (Város) in 2001. István Molnár (28 November 2000), Tét. Overview.
/ref> Current population is estimated at 4,104 inhabitants.

Notable people

* Károly Kisfaludy (1788–1830) a Hungarian dramatist and artist. *

Gábor Faludi Mr Gabor Faludi was the founder and manager of Vigszinhaz comedy theatre in Budapest. He passed on in May 1932 after sever illness. Mr. Gábor Faludi (1 May 1846– 4 May 1932) was a theatre manager in Budapest, Hungary. He was the founder and ...

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