Hajdúnánás
Hajdúnánás is a town in Hajdú-Bihar County, in the Northern Great Plain region of eastern Hungary.
Geography
It covers an area of 259.62 km (100 sq mi) and has a population of 17,172 people (2015).
Racetrack
On 21 June 2020, the Magyar Nemzetkozi Motodrome was announced to be built near Hajdúnánás, at the centre of the Debrecen-Miskolc-Nyíregyháza triangle. This track would be suitable to host MotoGP, as well as Formula 1 races in the future.
Notable residents
- Zoltán Nagy, footballer
- József Mónus, world recorder archer
- Zoltán Csehi, footballer
- Annamária Bogdanović, handballer
- Ágnes Szilágyi, handballer
- Anita Kazai, handballer
- Valéria Szabó, handballer
- Tamás Kulcsár, footballer
- Anett Sopronyi, handballer
- R. Yisrael Efraim Fischel Schreiber (Sofer), Rabbi of Hajdúnánás and author the Afsei Aretz (1862)
- Gábor Tánczos, politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1919)
- Viktória Rédei Soós, handballer
- István Spitzmüller, footballer
- Paul Ornstein, Hungarian-American psychoanalyst
- Béla Vihar, poet, journalist, writer, teacher
- Meinhart Maur, German film actor
- Imre Hódos, wrestler
- Henrietta Csiszár, footballer
Twin towns – sister cities
Hajdúnánás is twinned with:
Piešťany, Slovakia
Ustroń, Poland
Valea lui Mihai, Romania
References
- ^ Gazetteer of Hungary, 1 January 2015. Hungarian Central Statistical Office. 3 September 2015
- ^ "Testvérvárosok". hajdunanas.hu (in Hungarian). Hajdúnánás. Retrieved 29 March 2021.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Hajdúnánás.
- Official website in Hungarian
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