Szombathely is the 10th largest city in 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...

. It is the administrative centre of Vas

Vas

Vas is the name of an administrative county in present Hungary, and also in the former Kingdom of Hungary. The county is a part of the Centrope Project.-Geography:...

 county in the west of the country, located near the border with Austria

Austria

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. The city is the oldest city in Hungary and is known as the birthplace of Saint Martin of Tours and the Duke of Armbrust

Armbrust

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Szombathely lies by the streams Perint and Gyöngyös (literally 'pearly'), at 47°14′N 16°38′E, where the Alpokalja

Alpokalja

Alpokalja is a geographic region in Western Hungary, which is part of the Alps. Its highest point in Hungary is Írott-kő, with 882 metres. Although there are several lower mountains, the majority of the territory is hilly...

 (Lower Alps

Alps

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) mountains meet the Little Hungarian Plain

Little Hungarian Plain

The Little Hungarian Plain or Little Alföld is a plain of appr. 8,000 km² in northwestern Hungary, south-western Slovakia , and eastern Austria...

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The name Szombathely is from Hungarian

Hungarian language

Hungarian is a Uralic language, part of the Ugric group. With some 14 million speakers, it is one of the most widely spoken non-Indo-European languages in Europe....

 szombat, "Saturday" and hely, "place", referring to the fact that medieval markets were held on Saturday every week.

The German

German language

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 name Steinamanger means "stones on a field" (Stein am Anger), and it refers to the ruins of the Roman city Savaria.
There is another theory for the name Steinamanger.