The town of Vásárosnamény is located in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County. According to archaeological findings, the settlement and its surroundings have been inhabited since ancient times, the first written mention in 1214: Numen. The name may come from a personal name of German origin, with Hungarian pronunciation. Its first known owners are the Lónyay family, who, according…
The village of Nagypalád (in Ukrainian Велика Паладь (Velika Palagy / Velyka Palad’)) is located in Transcarpathia, Ukraine. It is first mentioned in 1332 under the name of Palad. At first, it was part of the Rozsály manor. Then, from the 18th century, it was owned by the Kereskényi, Szakadáthy and Kölcsey families. The village,…
Peleș is a village inhabited by Hungarians in Romania, in Satu Mare county. From an administrative point of view, it is part of Lazuri commune. The name of the village was first mentioned in certificates in 1348, when it was written as Pylyske, and in 1450 as Nagypiliske. The old owners of the settlement were…
Lazuri (in Hungarian: Lázári, in German: Neuschlag) is a commune in Satu Mare County, Transylvania, Romania, consisting of the villages of Bercu, Lazuri (residence), Nisipeni, Noroieni, Peleș and Pelișor. It was a settlement that already existed in the Árpád era, which was destroyed during the Tatar invasion. It got its name from the nobleman Lázár,…
Kömörő village in the Northern Plain region, Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county. Kömörő’s name is mentioned in documents for the first time in 1344, under the name Kemerew. In the early 1300s, it was owned by the Kömörey family. In 1496, László Ujhelyi and László Szepessy were the owners of the settlement. In 1518, the owner here was…
Porumbești (in Hungarian Kökényesd) is the village of residence of the commune of the same name in Satu Mare County, Transylvania, Romania.A settlement located northeast of Satu Mare. Porumbești and its surroundings were already inhabited in prehistoric times. Artifacts from the Bronze Age were discovered on its territory. A settlement from the Árpád era. Its…
Kisszekeres, village in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county. Kisszekers is first mentioned in documents in 1181. Already in 1359, it was owned by the Szekeressy family. In 1404, the Kölcsey family, in 1422 the Domahidy family, and in 1446 the Ujhelyi family also had mortgaged properties here. In 1460 the Károlyi family, in 1481 Bornemisza, in 1490 the…
Pelișor is a village located in Satu Mare County, Romania. Administratively, it is part of the village of Lázári. Pelișor is first mentioned in documents at the beginning of the 14th century, its name was then written as Pylyske. In the early 1300s it was the property of the Pylyskey family, but after 1423 there…
Kispalád village in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County. Kispalád belonged to three villages in the area formerly known as Paladság (the other two are Nagypalád and Botpalád in Transcarpathia).There was a time when it belonged to the palágy part of the Csaholy family estate. It belonged to the Csaholiya family until the death of the male branch of…
Kisnameny village in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county. The name Kisnameny is first mentioned in documents in the 15th century. At that time, the settlement already had a church and a priest: in 1332, its priest, named Barnabás, paid 4 garas and 40 denarii papal tax based on surviving dataThe name of the village was then written as…