Törökszentmiklós [tørøksɛntmikloːʃ] is a town in Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok county, in the Northern Great Plain region of central Hungary . It is the third-largest settlement in the county.
5-474: It covers an area of 185.16 km (71 sq mi) and has a population of 23,145 (2002). The settlement was first mentioned (as Zenthmyclos ) in charters of King Zsigmond in 1399. In 1552 the castle of Balaszentmiklós fell under the Turkish siege. ("Törok" is Hungarian for "Turkish".) In 1685 it was destroyed. In 1738 the settlement, then known as Török Szent Miklós, became a market town . Between
10-612: Is Zsigmond . A Lithuanian name Žygimantas , meaning "wealth of (military) campaign", from Lithuanian žygis "campaign, march" + manta "goods, wealth", has been a substitution of the name Sigismund in the Lithuanian language, from which it was adopted by the Ruthenian language as Жыгімонт (such are the cases of Sigismund Kęstutaitis , Sigismund Korybut , Sigismund I the Old , Sigismund II Augustus ). The Polish spelling
15-443: Is based in the town. Törökszentmiklós is twinned with: This Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Sigismund Sigismund (variants: Sigmund , Siegmund ) is a German proper name, meaning "protection through victory", from Old High German sigu "victory" + munt "hand, protection". Tacitus latinises it Segimundus . There appears to be an older form of
20-647: The 1990s and 2014 local politics were dominated by Fidesz and Fidesz-supporting independent groups, but Jobbik became the majority party in the Municipal Assembly at the 2014 Hungarian local elections . The current mayor of Törökszentmiklós is Imre Markót (Our Home Szentmiklós). The local Municipal Assembly, elected at the 2019 Hungarian local elections , is made up of 11 members (1 mayor, 7 individual constituency MEPs and 3 compensation list MEPs) divided between these political parties and alliances: The association football club, Törökszentmiklósi FC ,
25-505: The High German word "Sieg" (victory): sigis , obviously Gothic and an inferred Germanic form, and there is a younger form: sigi , which is Old Saxon or Old High German sigu (both from about 9th century). A 5th century Prince of Burgundy was known both as Sigismund and Sigimund (see Ernst Förstemann , Altdeutsche Personennamen , 1906; Henning Kaufmann, Altdeutsche Personennamen , Ergänzungsband, 1968). Its Hungarian equivalent
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