Makó (, , Makowe, or , ) is a town in Csongrád County, in southeastern Hungary, from the Romanian border. It lies on the Maros River. Makó is home to 21,913 people and it has an area of , of which is arable land. Makó is the fourth-largest town in Csongrád County after Szeged, Hódmezővásárhely and Szentes. The town is from Hódmezővásárhely, from Szeged, from Arad, from Gyula, from Timișoara (Temesvár), and from Budapest.

The climate is warmer than anywhere else in Hungary, with hot, dry summers. The town is noted for its onion which is a hungarikum, the spa and the thermal bath. The Makó International Onion Festival, the largest of its kind, is held annually.

Jews began to settle in Makó about the middle of the 18th century, under the protection of Stanislavich, the Bishop of Csanád. In 1740, he assigned a special quarter where they soon formed a community, and by 1747 had established a Chevra kadisha.

The first rabbi of Makó was Judah ben Abraham ha-Levi (who occupied the rabbinate from 1778 to 1824). He was succeeded by Salomon Ullman (1826–63). Ullman wrote a commentary on certain sections of Yoreh De'ah, under the title "Yeri'ot Shelomoh" (Vienna, 1854). He was followed by Anton Enoch Fischer (1864–96), former rabbi of Dunaföldvár. Fischer introduced German and (later) Hungarian in his sermons, when the community still spoke mostly Yiddish.

Religion

  • Géza Vermes (born 1924-2013), Jewish theologian, orientalist
  • Meshulim Feish Lowy, Grand Rebbe of the Tosh Hasidic dynasty
  • Vasile Erdeli, Romanian bishop of the Diocese of Oradea Mare (1843–1862)
  • Sándor Rosenberg, neolog rabbi

Media/Art/Entertainment

  • Tamás Kátai (born 1975), musician
  • Antal Páger (1899–1986), actor
  • Katalin Berek (1930–2017), actress
  • István Dégi (1935–1992), actor
  • Bea Palya (born 1976), singer
  • Joseph Pulitzer (1847–1911), Hungarian-American journalist, publisher and philanthropist
  • Albert Pulitzer (1851–1909), Hungarian-American journalist, teacher
  • Andre de Toth (1912–2002), Hungarian-American film director and producer
  • Emil Makai (1871–1901, Budapest), Hungarian poet
  • Jenő Barcsay, painter

Sports

  • József Sütő, long-distance runner
  • Marko Milošević, Bosnian footballer, football manager
  • Gábor Gyömbér, footballer
  • Zsolt Gévay, footballer
  • Krisztina Pigniczki, handballer
  • Zsolt Huszárik, footballer
  • Tamás Szélpál, footballer
  • András Dlusztus, footballer
  • László Köteles, footballer

Twin towns – sister cities

Makó is twinned with:

  • Ada, Serbia
  • Atça (Sultanhisar), Turkey
  • Bodo (Balinț), Romania
  • Dumbrava, Romania
  • Jasło, Poland
  • Kiryat Yam, Israel
  • Lugoj, Romania
  • Martinsicuro, Italy
  • Maumee, United States
  • Miercurea Ciuc, Romania
  • Radomsko, Poland

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  • Rusko Selo (Kikinda), Serbia
  • Sânnicolau Mare, Romania
  • Xinyang, China
  • Želiezovce, Slovakia

See also

  • Downtown Primary School, Elementary Arts Educational Institution and Logopedical Institute

References

  • in Hungarian
  • Makó at funiq.hu