21 Facts About Szeged

Szeged is the third largest city of Hungary, the largest city and regional centre of the Southern Great Plain and the county seat of Csongrad-Csanad county.

The University of Szeged is one of the most distinguished universities in Hungary.

The name Szeged was first mentioned in 1183, in a document of King Bela III.

Szeged is known as the home of paprika, a spice made from dried, powdered capsicum fruits.

Szeged is famous for their szekelygulyas, a goulash made with pork, sauerkraut and sour cream.

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Citizens of Szeged played an important part in the Hungarian Revolution of 1848.

Szeged was the last seat of the revolutionary government in July 1849.

The Habsburg rulers punished the leaders of the town, but later Szeged began to prosper again; the railway reached it in 1854, and the town got its free royal town status back in 1860.

Szeged kept his promise, and during the next years a new, modern city emerged from the ruins, with palaces and wide streets.

In 1923 Szeged took over the role of episcopal seat from Temesvar .

Szeged was captured by Soviet troops of the 2nd Ukrainian Front on 11 October 1944 in the course of the Battle of Debrecen.

Today's Szeged is an important university town and a tourist attraction.

Szeged is situated near the southern border of Hungary, just to the south of the mouth of the Maros River, on both banks of the Tisza River, nearly in the centre of the Carpathian Basin.

Szeged's climate is transitional between oceanic Koppen "Cfb" and continental, with cold winters, hot summers, and fairly low precipitation.

City of Szeged has 62 kindergartens, 32 elementary schools and 18 high schools.

Szeged is the higher education centre of the Southern Great Plain and has built quite a reputation for itself.

The University of Szeged is according to the number of students the second largest and the 4th oldest university of Hungary being established in 1581.

In 2018 the new scientific institution, the ELI Attosecond Light Pulse Source opened in Szeged establishing a unique facility which provides light sources within an extremely broad frequency range in the form of ultrashort pulses with high repetition rate which is needed for different kinds of physical experiments especially in the field of attosecond physics.

Szeged is one of the centres of food industry in Hungary, especially known for its paprika and companies like Pick Szeged, Sole-Mizo, Bonafarm etc.

Szeged is the most important transportation hub in the Southern Great Plain.

The M43 Motorway – which splits from the M5 Motorway near Szeged – connects the city via Mako to Arad and Timisoara in Romania.