Túrricse is a
village
A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...
in
Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county, in the
Northern Great Plain
The Northern Great Plain ( ) is a statistical ( NUTS 2) region of Hungary. It is part of the Great Plain and North (NUTS 1) region. The Northern Great Plain includes the counties of Hajdú-Bihar, Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok, and Szabolcs-Szatmár-Be ...
region
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of eastern
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 ...
. It is located in the eastern part of the county, about 10 kilometers from the Hungarian-Ukrainian-Romanian border.
Geography
It covers an area of and has a population of 695 people (2015).
History
The name of Túrricse (Ricse) was first mentioned in a charter as Riche in 1271, when King Stephen the Vth donated it to the ancestor of the Csáholyi family. It remained in the ownership of the family until 1611, when Péter Melith inherited the part of Csaholyi estate.
In the 18th century, Ricse was acquired by the Barkóczy family.
Szilárd Borbély's "Nincstelenek" is set in Túrricse.
Economy
References
Populated places in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County
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