Elek is a town in Békés County in the Southern Great Plain of southeastern Hungary. Until the Second World War it held the largest concentration of Germans in the county, a population almost entirely Swabian, alongside a Jewish community established in the 19th century that was largely destroyed in the 1944 Holocaust.
Facts
Founding Year Founding Year Sources
1. Elek (Wikidata)
P1082 (population)Quote, P1082 (population)
population 4,231 (2025)
2. Wikipedia (Hungarian): Elek (település)
Wikipedia (Hungarian)Source text, founding-year-range-start: 1232
Elek nevét elsőként 1232 -ben említik.
Source text, founding-year-range-end: 1232
Elek nevét elsőként 1232 -ben említik.
Source text, founding-year: 1232
Elek nevét elsőként 1232 -ben említik.
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