Törökszentmiklós
town in Hungary
Törökszentmiklós [tørøksɛntmikloːʃ] is a town in Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok county, in the Northern Great Plain region of central Hungary. It is the third-largest settlement in the county.
Geography
It covers an area of 185.16 km2 (71 sq mi) and has a population of 23,145 (2002).
History
The settlement was first mentioned (as Zenthmyclos) in charters of King Zsigmond in 1399.
In 1552 the castle of Balaszentmiklós fell under the Turkish siege (Török is Hungarian for "Turkish"). In 1685 it was destroyed.
In 1738 the settlement, then known as Török Szent Miklós, became a market town.
Politics
Between the 1990s and 2014 local politics were dominated by Fidesz and Fidesz-supporting independent groups, but Jobbik became the majority party in the Municipal Assembly at the 2014 Hungarian local elections.
The current mayor of Törökszentmiklós is Imre Markót (Our Home Szentmiklós).
The local Municipal Assembly, elected at the 2019 Hungarian local elections, is made up of 11 members (1 mayor, 7 individual constituency MEPs and 3 compensation list MEPs) divided between these political parties and alliances:
Sport
The association football club, Törökszentmiklósi FC, is based in the town.
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The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 28, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q840986. VIAF identifies the subject as 137225559. The Library of Congress control number is n82040227. Authority coordinates are 47.183, 20.417. 4 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2002, 1399, 1552 and 1685.
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