Carei
Carei Groß-Karol Nagykároly |
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Basic data | ||||
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State : | Romania | |||
Historical region : | Sathmar | |||
Circle : | Satu Mare | |||
Coordinates : | 47 ° 41 ' N , 22 ° 28' E | |||
Time zone : | EET ( UTC +2) | |||
Height : | 130 m | |||
Area : | 102 km² | |||
Residents : | 21,112 (October 20, 2011) | |||
Population density : | 207 inhabitants per km² | |||
Postal code : | 445100 | |||
Telephone code : | (+40) 02 61 | |||
License plate : | SM | |||
Structure and administration (as of 2016) | ||||
Community type : | Municipality | |||
Structure : | 1 District / cadastral municipality: Ianculești | |||
Mayor : | Eugen Kovács ( UDMR ) | |||
Postal address : | Str. 1 Decembrie 1918, no. 17 loc. Carei, jud. Satu Mare, RO-445100 |
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Carei (outdated Careii Mari ; German Groß-Karol , Großkarol , Hungarian Nagykároly ) is a city in northwestern Romania with the rank of a municipality .
Location of the village
The city is located in the Satu Mare district , about one hundred kilometers from Oradea ( Greater Oradea ) and is not far from the Hungarian border.
history
Carei was first mentioned in a document in 1335. After the Treaty of Trianon , it became part of Greater Romania in 1920 . During the Second World War , the city was again part of Hungary , since the end of the war it has belonged again to Romania, where it was assigned to the Satu Mare district in 1968.
The Hasidic theologian Joel Teitelbaum (1897–1979), founder of the devout sect Satmar , worked as a rabbi in the city in the second half of the 1920s .
population
The 2011 census gave the following result: 10950 Hungary , 8077 Romanians , 479 Romania German , 462 Roma , 17 Ukrainians and members of other ethnic groups.
Attractions
In Carei there is a castle from the 13th century (reconstruction in the neo-Gothic style of the 19th century) with a park of 120,000 m² worth seeing with an extensive arboretum. The castle houses a museum with exhibitions on the town's history, local archeology (including finds from Tell Bobald and Cauas), the history of the Karoly family and a collection of stuffed wild animals.
Every year in the last week of July there is a city festival, which includes a medieval market.
Sports
In Carei there are two football clubs (Victoria Carei and FC Kaizer Carei) and a junior football club - the CSS Carei. In Carei there are four recreational soccer fields (some with concrete floor) and two club fields that belong to Victoria and FC Kaizer Carei.
sons and daughters of the town
- Gáspár Károlyi (around 1529–1592), Protestant theologian and Bible translator
- Margit Kaffka (1880–1918), Hungarian writer and feminist
- Susanne Barth (* 1944), German actress
- Adrian Sălăgeanu (* 1983), Romanian football player
- Eric Bicfalvi (* 1988), Romanian football player
Twin cities
- Orosháza (1991)
- Nyírbátor (2000)
- Mátészalka .
literature
- Nagykároly , in: Guy Miron (Ed.): The Yad Vashem encyclopedia of the ghettos during the Holocaust . Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 2009 ISBN 978-965-308-345-5 , p. 513
Web links
- Private website with information and pictures about Carei (Romanian)
- Nagykárolyi Napló - website (Hungarian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ 2011 census in Romania at citypopulation.de
- ↑ 2011 census in Romania ( MS Excel ; 1.3 MB)