Nagykáta
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Nagykáta is a town in Pest}}, Hungary
Hungary
Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...

, about 60 kilometre from Budapest.

Communications

Express trains take 47 minutes to Budapest Keleti railway station
from Nagykáta and stopping trains about 65 minutes.

History

The history of Nagykáta dates back to the 12th century,
when the Pest county branch of the Káta family settled
in the region.

On the outskirts of Nagykáta, at a place called Kenderhalom,
can be found the remains of a village which was the
predecessor of Nagykáta at the time of the Árpád dynasty
Árpád dynasty
The Árpáds or Arpads was the ruling dynasty of the federation of the Hungarian tribes and of the Kingdom of Hungary . The dynasty was named after Grand Prince Árpád who was the head of the tribal federation when the Magyars occupied the Carpathian Basin, circa 895...

.

The Regestrum of Várad mentions the name of the village as in 1221. In the 15th and 16th centuries the name of Nagykáta appears as in several documents. The name Nagykáta appears first at the beginning of the 17th century.

Although the village was destroyed several times under the Turkish
occupation of Hungary
Ottoman Hungary
History of Ottoman Hungary refers to the history of parts of the Ottoman Empire situated in what today is Hungary, in the period from 1541 to 1699.-History:...

, it was always revived. The Káthay family were unable keep up with so many setbacks and could not survive the struggle. Heirless Ferenc Káthay had to sell his remaining estates – even Csekekáta – to Miklós Keglevich
House of Keglević
The House of Keglević is a Croatian noble family originally from Dalmatia, their members were pointed out in public life, also as soldiers...

 in 1663.

When Buda
Buda
For detailed information see: History of Buda CastleBuda is the western part of the Hungarian capital Budapest on the west bank of the Danube. The name Buda takes its name from the name of Bleda the Hun ruler, whose name is also Buda in Hungarian.Buda comprises about one-third of Budapest's...

was reoccupied Nagykáta was also marked for destruction, and it did not appear in
the official registers until 1665, but from 1696 the village had an ordained priest again, and the registration of births, marriages death began.

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