Location

Borsosberény is located 65 km (40 mi) north of Budapest

Budapest

Budapest is the capital of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary, it is the country's principal political, cultural, commercial, industrial, and transportation centre. In 2011, Budapest had 1,733,685 inhabitants, down from its 1989 peak of 2,113,645 due to suburbanization. The Budapest Commuter...

 on the E77 European main road. The village lies at the northeastern foots of Börzsöny hills. It is about 17 km (11 mi) southwest of Balassagyarmat

Balassagyarmat

Balassagyarmat is a town in northern Hungary. It was the seat of the Nógrád comitatus.- History :The town's coat-of-arms bears the Latin inscription "Civitas Fortissima" , because in January 1919 Czechoslovak troops crossed the demarcation line delineated in December 1918 in preparation for the...

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History

Outskirts of Borsosberény are populated since the Neolithic Age. Findings from the Neolithic and the Bronze Age were discovered close to the village. The settlement was property of the Losonczy family in 1393.In 1470 King Mathias donated the village to László Madách and Gáspár Jánosy due to their brave behaviour in campaign against the Czechs. In the middle of the 16th century the Ottomans conquered Borsosberény. Some of the Turkish landowners were mentioned in Ottoman tax registers, e. g. Rizvan Divane Turkish warrior from Dregel in 1587. Borsosberény was mostly desolationed during the Ottoman occupation, its population grew significantly in the 18th century. Big landowners were later in Borsosberény: Tihanyi family since 18th century, Baloghs from Ócsa, bishopric of Vác

Vác

Vác is a town in Pest county in Hungary with approximately 35,000 inhabitants. The archaic spellings of the name are Vacz and Vacs.-Location:...

, Bartakovich family,, Gindly family from Tengelicz, and Mocsáry family at last till 1945. Kálmán Mikszáth

Kálmán Mikszáth

Kálmán Mikszáth de Kiscsoltó was a major Hungarian novelist, journalist, and politician.-Biography:Mikszáth was born in Szklabonya, Upper Hungary into a family of the lesser nobility...

 got the land of Szomolya as a gift from the Hungarian nation on his 40th writing jubilee, so his family was landowner between 1909 and 1945.

Szomolyapuszta belongs to Borsosberény was a separate village in the Middle Ages, this is where the Johannita Order’s

Knights Hospitaller

The Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and of Malta , also known as the Sovereign Military Order of Malta , Order of Malta or Knights of Malta, is a Roman Catholic lay religious order, traditionally of military, chivalrous, noble nature. It is the world's...

 monastery was situated in 1274. The monastery fell to the ground during centuries. During the Ottoman

Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman EmpireIt was usually referred to as the "Ottoman Empire", the "Turkish Empire", the "Ottoman Caliphate" or more commonly "Turkey" by its contemporaries...

conquest Mahmud Bin Iltsi and later Bosna Hassan were mentioned as landowners.

Present Roman Catholic church of the village was built between 1728 and 1730. One mansion was built by Thomas Tihanyi in 1826 and would be owned by Mocsáry family later. The other mansion was built by Ágoston Bartakovich. The village got railway connection in 1909.

External links

• Borsosberény in Vendégváró Hungarian