Karácsond, Heves, Northern Hungary Region, Hungary

History | Population

🇭🇺 Karácsond is a village in Heves Country, Hungary.

History The territory is inhabited since ancient times, but the first mentioning of the village is in 1323 as Karachund. It was the estate of the Aba genus then inherited by the Csobánka genus. In 1325 it was given to the Kompolti family, succeeded by the Ország family in 1522. As a result of the Ottoman-Hungarian wars, six serf lands were destroyed and three impoverished. In the 18th century the Haller, Esterházy and Drašković families owned the village, followed by the Orczy, Gönczi and Puky. Under this time the territory became Slavic majority. During the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 nine serfs from Karácsond joined the army of Lajos Kossuth.

Population In 2011 89,9% of the village's population identified as Hungarian, 6,7% as Romani, 0,1% as Slovak, also 0,1% as Bulgarian and 0,5% as other. 54,1% identified as Roman Catholic, 16,6% as non-religious, 4,1% as Reformational, 0,2% as Greek Catholic, also 0,2% as Lutheran and 1,9% as other.

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Karácsond has a population of over 2,911 people. Karácsond also forms part of the wider Heves County which has a population of over 301,296 people. Karácsond is situated near Eger.

Twin Towns - Sister Cities Karácsond has links with:

🇷🇴 Ocland, Romania
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Antipodal to Karácsond is: -159.967,-47.733

Locations Near: Karácsond 20.033,47.733

🇭🇺 Gyöngyös 19.933,47.783 d: 9.3  

🇭🇺 Jászberény 19.915,47.501 d: 27.3  

🇭🇺 Heves 20.283,47.6 d: 23.9  

🇭🇺 Eger 20.381,47.897 d: 31.7  

🇭🇺 Salgótarján 19.827,48.105 d: 44.1  

🇭🇺 Szolnok 20.189,47.18 d: 62.6  

🇭🇺 Cegléd 19.792,47.17 d: 65.1  

🇸🇰 Rimavská Sobota 20,48.367 d: 70.5  

🇭🇺 Törökszentmiklós 20.417,47.183 d: 67.6  

🇭🇺 Gödöllő 19.357,47.601 d: 52.7  

Antipodal to: Karácsond -159.967,-47.733

🇹🇴 Nuku'alofa -175.216,-21.136 d: 16757.3  

🇵🇫 Papeete -149.566,-17.537 d: 16526.3  

🇦🇸 Pago Pago -170.701,-14.279 d: 16165.4  

🇼🇸 Apia -171.76,-13.833 d: 16090.9  

🇺🇸 Hilo -155.089,19.725 d: 12498.3  

🇺🇸 Maui -156.446,20.72 d: 12395.3  

🇺🇸 Maui County -156.617,20.868 d: 12379.7  

🇺🇸 Kahului -156.466,20.891 d: 12376.4  

🇺🇸 Wailuku -156.505,20.894 d: 12376.3  

🇺🇸 Honolulu -157.85,21.3 d: 12336  

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