Abaujszanto

Abaujszanto is a small metropolis in Borsod-Abauj-Zemplen county, Northern Hungary, approximately 40 kilometres from the county capital Miskolc. It belongs to the well-known Tokaj-Hegyalja wine district. Abaujszanto has been inhabited due to the fact historic instances. The Hungarians settled down inside the place across the Conquest of Hungary. It became a metropolis for more than 600 years, the centre of the Gonc district until 1921 and the largest metropolis of the vicinity after Kassa. It misplaced its metropolis fame in 1902, and in many methods its function turned into taken over through Encs. It changed into the centre of the Abaujszanto district from 1921 till 1962.

Many famous guys had connections with Abaujszanto, the poet Ilosvai Selymes Péter worked right here as a schoolmaster, and Gaspar Karoli, who translated the Bible to Hungarian, lived nearby, and the Protestant pastors of Abaujszanto helped him in his translating paintings. Before World War II, there has been a huge Jewish community of approximately 681 Jews. The network was annihilated by using the Nazis within the Holocaust. Abaujszanto changed into granted city reputation again in 2004.