Karcag
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Geography
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Transport
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Karcag has its own railway station, but InterCity trains do not stop here.
| Significant minority groups | |
| Nationality | Population (2011) |
|---|---|
| German | 48 |
| Romanian | 20 |
| Russian | 8 |
| Slovakian | 8 |
| Serbian | 6 |
Politics
The current mayor of Karcag is László Dobos (Fidesz-KDNP).
The local Municipal Assembly, elected at the 2019 local government elections, is made up of 12 members (1 Mayor, 8 Individual constituencies MEPs and 3 Compensation List MEPs) divided into this political parties and alliances:[1]
| Party | Seats | Current Municipal Assembly | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| style="background-color: Template:Party color | | Fidesz-KDNP | 9 | style="background-color: Template:Party color |M | style="background-color: Template:Party color | | style="background-color: Template:Party color | | style="background-color: Template:Party color | | style="background-color: Template:Party color | | style="background-color: Template:Party color | | style="background-color: Template:Party color | | style="background-color: Template:Party color | | style="background-color: Template:Party color | |
| style="background-color: Template:Party color | | Jobbik | 2 | style="background-color: Template:Party color | | style="background-color: Template:Party color | | |||||||
| Momentum Movement | 1 | ||||||||||
Twin towns – sister cities
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- Cristuru Secuiesc, Romania (1990)
- Kunszentmiklós, Hungary (2009)
- Lazdijai, Lithuania (2004)
- Lednice, Czech Republic (2006)
- Merki District, Kazakhstan (1998)
- Moldava nad Bodvou, Slovakia (1998)
- Schwarzheide, Germany (2004)
- Stara Moravica (Bačka Topola), Serbia (1994)
Notable people
- Template:Ill (died in 1770), the last speaker of the Cuman language
- Colonel Michael de Kovats (1724–1779), the father of the US cavalry, a Hungarian hussar was born in Karcag
- Gyula (Julius) Németh (1890–1976), Hungarian Turkologist, linguist
- Avram Hershko (born 1937), Israeli biochemist and Nobel laureate in Chemistry
- Margit Sebők (1939–2000), painter and educator
- Kevin Varga (born 1996), footballer
- Mihály Varga (born 1965), politician, since 2013 Minister of National Economy
- Suzi Diamond, Holocaust survivor.[2]
References
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External links
- Template:Official in Hungarian, English, German and Italian
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