Tokaj

Tokaj is a historic town in Borsod-Abauj-Zemplen county, Northern Hungary, fifty four kilometers from county capital Miskolc. It is the centre of the Tokaj-Hegyalja wine district in which Tokaji wine is produced. The wine-growing region was first cited with the aid of the call Tokaj in 1067. The metropolis itself become first cited in documents in 1353. Its first citadel become a motte, which become destroyed all through the Mongol invasion of Hungary. By the 14th century the metropolis already had a stone citadel, belonging to the Diosgyor estate.

After 1450 Tokaj became the belongings of the Hunyadi family, so after Matthias Hunyadi have become king, the town became a royal estate. In 1705 Francis II Rakoczi ordered the castle to be destroyed. After the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 the city prospered, but whilst the arena wars got here, it suffered loads, lost its significance and its metropolis fame. Even its position in wine change became taken over by way of Satoraljaujhely. Tokaj became granted town fame once more in 1986 and it started out to prosper again. Now the metropolis is a famous vacationer enchantment.