Őrbottyán

Coordinates: 47°41′N 19°16′E / 47.683°N 19.267°E / 47.683; 19.267
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Őrbottyán
UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code
2162
Area code+36 28
Websitehttp://www.orbottyan.hu

Őrbottyán is a town in

Pest county, Hungary
.

Name

fortress in the Middle Ages.[4]

Geography

Őrbottyán lies 25 km (16 mi) from the center of

suburban railway line crosses the town.[5]

History

Őrbottyán was created in 1970 with the unification of two small villages, named Őrszentmiklós and Vácbottyán.[6]

Őrszentmiklós first mentioned in 1344 as villa Sancti Nicolai (Latin for Village of Saint Nicholas) and in 1390 as Zenth Myklos (Hungarian for Saint Nicholas). Vácbottyán first mentioned in 1332 as Botuna (old version of Bottyán[3]) and in 1376 as Bathyan.[6] According to the Hungarian Royal Treasury, the region was inhabited by ethnic Hungarians in 1495.[7] The area became devastated due to the Ottoman wars in the 17th century, when Christians liberated the area in the 1680s they found only a few family in Őrszentmiklós, Vácbottyán was uninhabited.[6][7]

Őrszentmiklós resettled by

Lutheran Slovaks and Roman Catholic Hungarians in the 18th century.[7][8] Later Slovaks adopted Hungarian language and they assimilated into the Hungarian majority.[6][7]

Demographics

According to the 2011 census the total population of Őrbottyán was 7,102, of whom there were 6,159 (86.7%) Hungarians, 44 (0.6%) Germans and 40 (0.6%) Romani, while 937 people (13.2%) did not declare their ethnicity. Excluding these people Hungarians made up 99.9% of the total population.[9] In Hungary people can declare more than one ethnicity, so some people declared Hungarian and a minority one together.[10]

In 2011 there were 1,903 (26.8%)

Atheist, while 2,133 people (30.0%) did not declare their religion.[9]

In 2011 there were 2,622 dwellings (houses) in Őrbottyán with an average

floor space of 92 m2, which is higher than the national average (77 m2).[9] The average gross personal income for an employee was 1,947,000 HUF in 2011, higher than the national average (1,869,000 HUF).[11]

Historical population
YearPop.±%
1870 1,017—    
1880 1,041+2.4%
1890 1,172+12.6%
1900 1,348+15.0%
1910 1,453+7.8%
1920 1,691+16.4%
1930 2,001+18.3%
1941 2,168+8.3%
1949 2,332+7.6%
1960 2,766+18.6%
1970 3,194+15.5%
1980 3,856+20.7%
1990 4,048+5.0%
2001 5,353+32.2%
2011 7,102+32.7%

References

  1. ^ Őrbottyán at the Hungarian Central Statistical Office (Hungarian).
  2. ^ Őrbottyán at the Hungarian Central Statistical Office (Hungarian). 2011
  3. ^
    ISBN 963-9069-72-8
  4. ^ "A történelmi Magyarország várai ("Castles of the historic Hungary") / Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun county". József Dénes, Budapest University (ELTE). Retrieved 24 January 2014.
  5. ISBN 978-963-03-9124-5
  6. ^ a b c d Magyarország történeti statisztikai helységnévtára (Historical Gazetteer of Hungary), 15. Pest megye (Pest County), Központi Statisztikai Hivatal (Hungarian Central Statistical Office), Budapest, 2000, pp. 146/205
  7. ^
    ISBN 963-9545-10-4
    , CD Atlas
  8. ^ Lexicon Universorum Regni Hungaria Locorum Populo Sorum, 1773, pp. 162-163
  9. ^ a b c "Hungarian census 2011 - Pest county, 4.1.6.1 A népesség nemzetiség szerint, 2011 (population by ethnicity), 4.1.7.1 A népesség vallás, felekezet szerint, 2011 (population by religion), 4.3.3.1 A lakások és lakott üdülők alapterület szerint, 2011 (houses by floor space)". Hungarian Central Statistical Office. Retrieved 24 January 2014.
  10. ^ "Hungarian census 2011 - final data and methodology" (PDF). Hungarian Central Statistical Office. Retrieved 24 January 2014.
  11. ^ "Thematic maps - Personal income". Hungarian Central Statistical Office. Retrieved 24 January 2014.

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