Csurgó
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Csurgó is a town in Somogy county, Hungary
Hungary
Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...

. It is located at around 46°16′0"N 17°6′0"E.

Sightseeings

The town was important educational center of the Reformed Church in Hungary. Its Reformed Church College was visited by Mihály Csokonai Vitéz
Mihály Csokonai Vitéz
Mihály Csokonai Vitéz was a Hungarian poet.Having been educated in Debrecen, where he was born, Csokonai was appointed while still very young to the professorship of poetry there...

, the famous poet, too.

The Árpád age church has characteristic architecture. It has western tower with fourfold lower floors and octogonal upper floors with stone gul on the top.

People

  • Attila Bárkányi (hu)
  • Ferenc Beleváry (hu)
  • Mordecai Benet
    Mordecai Benet
    Mordecai ben Abraham Benet was a Talmudist and chief rabbi of Moravia born at Csurgó, a small village in the county of Stuhlweissenburg, Hungary.-A Gifted Child:...

    , rabbi
  • Ludwig Lichtstein, rabbi
  • Martin Schreiner, rabbi
  • Ludwig Venetianer
    Ludwig Venetianer
    Ludwig Venetianer was a Hungarian rabbi and writer.Venetianer was born in Kecskemét. He studied at the rabbinical seminary and the University of Budapest, and at the Jewish Theological Seminary and the University of Breslau, 1888-89...

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