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Biatorbágy (German: Wiehall-Kleinturwall) is a town in Pest County, Budapest metropolitan area, Hungary. It has a population of 13,889 (2019). It was created in 1966 by the merger of Bia (German: Wiehall) and Torbágy (German: Kleinturwall).
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History
On 13 September 1931 a demented man (Szilveszter Matuska) blasted the train to Vienna on the viaduct of Biatorbágy. Killing 22 and injuring up to 122 people, 17 severely, it has been the most notorious sabotage on his crime history.
Sport
- Biatorbágyi SE, association football club
Twin towns – sister cities
Biatorbágy is twinned with:[2]
Herbrechtingen, Germany (1989)
Remetea, Romania (2001)
Kiti, Cyprus (2004)
Dolný Štál, Slovakia (2012)
Velyka Dobron, Ukraine (2013)
Notable people
- Ferenc Juhász (1928–2015), poet
- Gyula Juhász (1930–1993), historian
- Csaba Horváth (born 1971), canoeist
References
- ^ "Detailed Gazetteer of Hungary". www.ksh.hu.
- ^ "Testvérvárosok". biatorbagy.hu (in Hungarian). Biatorbágy. Retrieved 2021-04-06.
External links
- Official website in Hungarian, English and German
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