Tiszabökény

Tiszabökény (in Ukrainian Тисобикень [Tiszobökény], formerly Бобове [Bobove]) is a village in Ukraine, Subcarpathia, Beregovo District.It is located on the left bank of the Tisza, 20 km southwest of Nagyszőlős and 25 km southeast of Beregovo. . In 1971, it was merged with the village of Tiszafarkas, previously it belonged to the village of Tiszapéter.
Tiszabökény, together with four other villages – Forgolány, Tivadar, Tiszafarkasfalva, Péterfalva – is currently under the administration of Péterfalva City Hall. According to the latest data, the total number of its inhabitants is around 5,200. The name of the village was first mentioned in a deed of 1230 as Buken.
. The village is considered to be one of the oldest settlements in the Tisza plain and was the first mentioned in written data among the noble villages of Ugocsa county. In 1230, a servant named Farkas received land here from King Andrew II.
The Farkas family was related to the Bökényi family, and he was also the founder of Farkasfalva. In the 15th century, the owners of the village were Bökény, then the village became the property of the Bay family. The village was destroyed by the Tatars in 1717, then colonized by the Russians. Fényes Elek’s description from 1851: “Bökény, Hungarian village, in the county of Bereg-Ugocsa, near the Tisa, 64 Roman-, 292 Greek-Catholic, 186 Reformed, 11 Jewish inhabitants, with a Reformed and Greek-Catholic church, with land fertile black. It has no forest, only bushy places. In the 19th century, a cholera epidemic devastated.
In 1910, it had 866 inhabitants, mostly Hungarians.