Nograd travel guide

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Nógrád ɡra ː no ː d (Slovak Novohrad) is a county (administrative district) in northern Hungary. It borders with Slovakia and the counties of Pest, Heves and Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county. It has an area of 2544 kilometers and ² (2001) 221,642 inhabitants. The county is Salgótarján. Nógrád The name is of Slavic origin. He is on the Slavic Novigrad (due Novi grad), which means in German "Neuburg" or "New Town" in Hungarian Újvár. It is likely that the first meaning "Neuburg" was, as is usually the first castles, then created the places around them. First, there was a castle of this name, the castle Nógrád, which was built on a 286 meter-high castle hill. After this was then named the city lying around them, then after that, finally, the whole county. The land is hilly and is traversed by the Nógrád mountains, the foothills of the Carpathians. The border with Slovakia) forms over a wide range of Eipel (aprox. Ipoly. The county was named in the same county (in German often Neograd / Neuburg) appears after the collapse of the Kingdom of Hungary in 1918 and was then the Hungarian part of the county to county Nógrád-Hont Hont united. After the cession of southern Slovakia as a result of the first Vienna Award in 1939, the Slovak part of the county from 1918 to 1945, was attached to the Hungarian part. Since 1950, the county is in its present form after a small part was joined by former county Hont the Hungarian part of the county. (...) more....

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