Dabas, Hungary

You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Hungarian. (January 2017) Click [show] for important translation instructions. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wik.ipedia.Pro. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Hungarian Wik.ipedia.Pro article at [[:hu:Dabas]]; see its history for attribution. You may also add the template {{Translated|hu|Dabas}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wik.ipedia.Pro:Translation.

Dabas
Town
Reformed church in Dabas
Flag Coat of arms
Dabas Location of in Hungary
Coordinates: 47°11′20″N 19°18′45″E / 47.18900°N 19.31257°E / 47.18900; 19.31257
Country	Hungary
County	Pest
District	Dabas
Area
• Total	165.99 km2 (64.09 sq mi)
Population  (2004)
• Total	16,093
• Density	96.95/km2 (251.1/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	2370
Area code	(+36) 29
Website	www.dabas.hu

Dabas (German: Dabotz) is a town in Pest County, Hungary, and the center of a microregion. It has a population of 17,000.

The town consists of four different parts: Upper Dabas, Lower Dabas, Gyón and Sári. The village of Dabas was already a populous settlement in 1270, but in the Ottoman era the whole region became totally deserted. In the 18th century four new villages were created by the owners of the territory. The inhabitants of Upper-Dabas were catholic Hungarian serfs, Lower-Dabas was the centre of the lower nobility (especially the famous and populous Halász family), Sári (Šari) was populated by catholic Slovak colonists and Gyón by Reformed Hungarians and Evangelical Slovaks. The Slovaks of Sári kept their national identity until the present. In the 19th century the nobility of Lower Dabas built several Neoclassical mansions – these are the main attractions of the town today. The two Dabas were united in 1947, and in 1966 the other two villages joined too. In the 1970s Dabas was urbanised and a modern town centre was built with a court house, public school, office blocks and a big department store. Dabas became a town in 1989.

Dabas is famous for the mansions of the lower nobility. The number of the national monuments from the 18th and 19th centuries is more than twenty. The most important of them is the big Neoclassical mansion of Móric Halász in Gyón and the Casino of the Nobles in Dabas. The Reformed Churches of Dabas and Gyón, the Evangelical Church of Gyón and the Catholic Churches of Dabas and Sári were built in the 18th century.

• László Kossuth, the father of the famous Hungarian statesman, Lajos Kossuth resided in Dabas. The Kossuth family's home is today a memorial museum
• Lajos Dinnyés, politician of the Smallholders Party, Prime Minister of Hungary between 31 May 1947 and 10 December 1948.
• Sándor Balogh, footballer who was part of the Golden Team of the 1950s.

Dabas is home to association football clubs FC Dabas and Dabas–Gyón FC that currently play in the Nemzeti Bajnokság III.

Dabas is twinned with:^[1]

• Official website in Hungarian
• Video Dabas