Körösladány
town in Hungary
Körösladány is a town in Békés County, in the Southern Great Plain region of south-east Hungary. Körösladány is located along the Sebes-Körös.
Béla Wenckheim, a Hungarian politician, who served as the Prime Minister of Hungary in 1875, was born here.
Jews lived in the city in the 19th and 20th centuries until the German Nazis destroyed the Jewish community in the Holocaust.
Geography
It covers an area of 123.87 km2 and has a population of 4557 people (2015).
Politics
The current mayor of Körösladány is Károly Kardos (Fidesz-KDNP).
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Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q911620. VIAF identifies the subject as 133863975. The Library of Congress control number is n97007340. Authority coordinates are 46.964, 21.079. 4 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1875 and 2015.
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