Őrbottyán
town in Hungary
Őrbottyán is a town in Pest county, Hungary.
Name
Bottyán is an old Hungarian given name for boys, meaning mace. Prefix Őr literally means "guard" in Hungarian and refers to the nearby hill Őrhegy, which was a fortress in the Middle Ages.
Geography
Őrbottyán lies 25 km (16 mi) from the center of Budapest at the foot of Gödöllő Hills, in the north-eastern sector of the Budapest metropolitan area. It lies 17 km (11 mi) km from M0, 15 km (9 mi) km from M2 and 10 km (6 mi) from M3 motorway. Budapest-Veresegyház-Vác suburban railway line crosses the town.
History
Őrbottyán was created in 1970 with the unification of two small villages, named Őrszentmiklós and Vácbottyán.
Őrszentmiklós first mentioned in 1344 as villa Sancti Nicolai (Latin for Village of Saint Nicholas) and in 1390 as Zenth Myklos (Hungarian for Saint Nicholas). Vácbottyán first mentioned in 1332 as Botuna (old version of Bottyán) and in 1376 as Bathyan. According to the Hungarian Royal Treasury, the region was inhabited by ethnic Hungarians in 1495.
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