Nagyecsed | |
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 Great Reformed church in Nagyecsed. | |
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  Nagyecsed | |
| Coordinates:47°52′N22°24′E / 47.867°N 22.400°E /47.867; 22.400 | |
| Country |  Hungary |
| County | Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Kovács Lajos (Ind.) |
| Area | |
• Total | 43.85 km2 (16.93 sq mi) |
| Population (2022)[3] | |
• Total | 5,927 |
| • Density | 135.2/km2 (350.1/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Postal code | 4355 |
| Area code | 44 |
| Website | www |
Nagyecsed is a town inSzabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county, in theNorthern Great Plainregion of easternHungary.
The old name of the town wasEcsed but over time it has been renamed Nagyecsed, meaning "grand" or "great Ecsed" to distinguish it. The area had close associations with a cadet branch of theBáthory family.Elizabeth Báthory was raised in the town's nowruinedcastle. Her main residence and later her prison wasCsejte Castle, Upper Hungary, now inSlovakia, but she was buried in the family crypt at Ecsed.
The town's castle was demolished in the eighteenth century after theKuruc uprisings.
It covers an area of 43.85 km2 (17 sq mi) and has a population of 5,927 people (2022).
The town is divided in two by theCrasna River. It formerly lay north west of the Ecsed Marsh (Ecsedi-láp), which was the largest contiguous marshland of the Great Hungarian Plain. As part of water control operations byTibor Károlyi this was drained in the late nineteenth century, and the lands thus reclaimed transformed into farmland.
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