Alattyan
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| Basic data | |||||
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| State : | Hungary | ||||
| Region : | Northern Great Plain | ||||
| County : | Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok | ||||
| Small area until December 31, 2012 : | Jászberény | ||||
| Coordinates : | 47 ° 26 ' N , 20 ° 2' E | ||||
| Height : | 90 m | ||||
| Residents : | 2,162 (Jan. 1, 2011) | ||||
| Telephone code : | (+36) 57 | ||||
| Postal code : | 5142 | ||||
| KSH kódja: | 25265 | ||||
| Structure and administration (as of 2012) | |||||
| Community type : | local community | ||||
| Mayoress : | Tiborné Dalmadi | ||||
| Postal address : | Szent István tér 1 5142 Alattyán |
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| (Source: A Magyar Köztársaság helységnévkönyve 2011. január 1st at Központi statisztikai hivatal ) | |||||
Alattyán [ ˈɒlɒcːaːn ] is a municipality on the western bank of the Zagyva River in Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County in Hungary .
location
Alattyán is about 90 m above sea level, north of Szolnok and southeast of Jászberény . The village can be reached via Landstrasse 32.
Surname
The name Alattyán can be derived from the Turkish personal name Alîp-Tîyan , which means 'heroic falcon'. Etymologically, the name is also related to the Hungarian place names Alap and Alpár , such as the noun turul (old: 'falcon').
The second part is more related to the Turkish word "doğan", which comes from the Old Turkish "togan" and also means "falcon". "turul" itself is related to the Turkish "tuğrul" <atü. "toġrїl" = "falcon".
history
The place was first mentioned in 1212 in the Regestrum of Várad (lat. Regestrum Varadiense ) under the name Olaptiuã . At the end of the 14th century the settlement was owned by the Kun family, later it came into the possession of the Chyrke family.
An Avar cemetery was discovered in Alattyán .
In the 15th century the village was a Cuman settlement.
The settlement was hardly damaged during the Turkish occupation, but more losses were recorded in later wars.
Around 1700, many Moravian settlers came to the village.
Alattyán and Jásztelek were merged in 1977, but have been independent again since 1989.
Demographics
| year | population |
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| 1851 | 1610 |
| 1891 | 2067 |
| 1910 | 2423 |
| 1990 | 1929 |
| 2001 | 2060 |
economy
The settlement is strongly characterized by agriculture. The most important company is SEI Interconnect Products Kft. (GmbH) with 130 employees.
sons and daughters of the town
- The paternal grandparents of French President Nicolas Sarkozy were petty nobility from Alattyán.
- Árpád Gecse , painter
- István Tukacs, master chef
Worth seeing
- The birth house of the painter Árpád Gecse, who died in 1999. Many works and documents by and about the artist can be viewed here.
- Jewish cemetery, memorial since 1999
- St. Michael's Church, built in 1773
Web links
- Website of the municipality of Alattyán
- Alattyán , in: A Pallas Nagy Lexikona (Hungarian)
Literature and references
- Lajos Kiss: Földrajzi nevek etimológiai szótára (Etymological Dictionary of Geographical Names), 1983