Szeghalom

Szeghalom
Town
Berettyó-bridge
Flag Coat of arms
Szeghalom
Coordinates: 47°1′38″N 21°9′58″E / 47.02722°N 21.16611°E / 47.02722; 21.16611
Country	Hungary
County	Békés
District	Szeghalom
Area
• Total	217.13 km2 (83.83 sq mi)
Population  (2009)
• Total	9,465
• Density	47/km2 (120/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	5520
Area code	(+36) 66
Website	szeghalom.hu

Szeghalom is a town in Békés county, in southeastern Hungary.^[1]

In the 19th and 20th centuries, a Jewish community with hundreds of members lived in the village.

On March 19, 1944, after the German army entered Hungary, the village Jews were forbidden to leave. In May, the Jews were concentrated in the ghetto established around the synagogue. On June 26, 1944, the village's Jews were transported by train to the Szolnok ghetto, from where they were sent to the Auschwitz extermination camp and murdered in the Holocaust.^[2]

Szeghalom's football club Szeghalmi FC plays the regional 1 league.^[3] It has a stadium with a capacity of over 500 people.^{[citation needed]}

Szeghalom is twinned with:^{[citation needed]}

• Sâncraiu, Romania
• Scheibbs, Austria
• Trasaghis, Italy

• Ferenc Szisz, the world's 1st Grand Prix motor racing winner
• Anna Bondár, Hungarian tennis player

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  Berettyó river
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  Kárász Mansion
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  Lajos Kossuth statue
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  Reformed church on the Kossuth Square
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  Kossuth Square

• Official website in Hungarian
• Aerial photographs of Szeghalom

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