Karcag () is a town in Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok county, in the Northern Great Plain region of central Hungary.

Geography

Karcag covers an area of and has a population of 20,632 people (2011).

Transport

Karcag has its own railway station.

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:

Twin towns – sister cities

Karcag is twinned with:

• 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

• István Varró (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.

References

External links

• in Hungarian, English, German and Italian