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Town in Békés, Hungary
Battonya Bătania, Batanja
Town
Aerial photography: Battonya - TempleAerial photography: Battonya - Temple
Flag of BattonyaFlagCoat of arms of BattonyaCoat of arms
Battonya is located in HungaryBattonyaBattonya
Coordinates: 46°17′N 21°1′E / 46.283°N 21.017°E / 46.283; 21.017
Country Hungary
CountyBékés
DistrictMezőkovácsháza
Area
 • Total145.71 km (56.26 sq mi)
Population
 • Total4,966
 • Density34.08/km (88.3/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code5830
Area code(+36) 68
Websitewww.battonya.hu

Battonya (Romanian: Bătania; Serbian: Батања, romanized: Batanja) is a town in Békés County, in the Southern Great Plain region of south-east Hungary. Residents are Hungarians, with minority of Serbs and Romanians.

Geography

It covers an area of 145.77 km and has a population of 4966 people (2023).

Further information: Battonya gas field

History

Kingdom of Hungary stamp, issue 1874, cancelled at BATTONYA.
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After the Ottoman occupation until 1918, BATTONYA was part of the Austrian monarchy, province of Hungary; in Transleithania after the compromise of 1867 in the Kingdom of Hungary.

The Jews in the city

The Jewish community in the city was established in the second half of the 19th century and most of the Jews in the settlement were merchants and industrialists.

The synagogue was built in 1896 and the community had a Jewish school.

In 1942, young Jews from the city were sent to forced labor.

In 1944, after the Germans entered Hungary, the head of the congregation and some of the community's dignitaries were arrested, and on May 13, all the local Jews were rounded up and finally transferred to Békéscsaba. Most of them were taken to the Auschwitz extermination camp.

After the war, three survivors returned from Auschwitz, six from forced labor and eighty from Austria. The community was reorganized, but many dispersed within a short time. In the 1970s, only a few Jews lived there.

Twin towns – sister cities

Battonya is twinned with:

References

  1. . Hungarian Central Statistical Office. 01/01/2023
  2. Handbook of Austria and Lombardy-Venetia Cancellations on the Postage Stamp Issues 1850–1864, by Edwin MUELLER, 1961.
  3. Hungarian Jewish census
  4. Documentation of the Jews who were murdered in the Holocaust
  5. The community page in the "Census of Hungarian Communities"
  6. The Jewish Community of Battonya in The Museum of the Jewish People

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46°17′N 21°01′E / 46.283°N 21.017°E / 46.283; 21.017



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