Veľké Kapušany
Veľké Kapušany ( until 1927 slovak also " Kapušany "; Hungarian Nagykapos ) is a town in the far east of Slovakia in the East Slovak Lowland, near the border with Ukraine. It has a relatively high Hungarian -speaking population.
General
The city lies in a flat plane in the East Slovakian lowland between the rivers Uh to the north, the west and the Laborec Latorica in the south. At the city passes the broad gauge route Uzhgorod - Košice, this is important for the economy in place, which mainly involves wood processing industry, food and building materials industry. There are also a number of Slovak and Hungarian educational institutions.
In the meantime many unsightly building blocks - remnants from the communist era - currently reside many poor Roma families; the other inhabitants colonize rather the suburbs, in more modern houses.
Due to its rather insignificant role in history, there are relatively few sights in the town. To mention is the Baroque-Classical Reformed Church of tolerance 1787 (1922 converted ). Despite the relatively large Jewish community in the city, there is no synagogue, but there is a hard drawn affected Jewish cemetery on the outskirts of the city.
History
The area of the town is an old settlement site of the Neolithic period and was established in the 11th and 12th centuries as a security settlement. The town was first mentioned in writing in 1211 as Kapos, 1214 as Copus 1430 and received a city charter. The town's name derives from the Hungarian word kapu ( German as " gate" ) from. She was after Ungvár / Uzhgorod the second largest city of the county Ung to which they belonged in the Kingdom of Hungary, and very often served as a transit point or permanent establishment for the migrating from East to West People ( German, Ruthenians, Poles, Hungarians and others).
The town fell after the First World War as part of Slovakia to Czechoslovakia, however, came from 1938 to 1945 by the First Vienna Award in Hungary. With the German invasion of 1944, the persecution and deportation of the resident in the city of Jewish and Roma population, a plaque in the town square reminded.
Boroughs
Officially, the city consists of the parts Veľké Kapušany and Veškovce (Hungarian Veskóc, 1964 incorporated ). Čepel (Hungarian Ungcsepely ) and Malé Kapušany (Hungarian Kiskapos ) were amalgamated in 1914.
Personalities
- János Erdélyi (1814-1868), Hungarian writer, philosopher and ethnographer
- Géza Gábor Herczegh (1928-2010), a Hungarian lawyer