Eight Hungarian Towns from Putnok to Újkígyós in Order of Recorded Latitude, North to South

Putnok is the northernmost stop, at a recorded latitude of about 48.29 degrees north, in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county about 40 kilometres from Miskolc between the Bükk Mountains and the Sajó river. Its page notes a castle built by the Putnoky family between 1412 and 1427 that stood until the Ottoman occupation, and that after the 1920 Treaty of Trianon it remained the largest settlement left on the Hungarian side of the old Gömör-Kishont county.

Cigánd lies at a recorded latitude of about 48.26 degrees north, in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County about eighty kilometers from Miskolc. Its page records that a 1347 ownership dispute split the settlement into Small Cigánd and Greater Cigánd, which reunited in 1922, that regulation of the Tisza river opened new arable land where residents took up potato cultivation, and that it received official town status on July 1, 2004.

Tiszavasvári lies at a recorded latitude of about 47.95 degrees north, in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County in the Northern Great Plain. Its page records that it formed in 1941 from the merger of Tiszabűd and Szentmihály under the name Bűdszentmihály, that the communities separated in 1946 and reunited in 1950, and that it was renamed in 1952 in memory of Pál Vasvári, a writer who took part in the 1848 revolution.

Rétság lies at a recorded latitude of about 47.93 degrees north, in Nograd County about 55 kilometers north of Budapest on the E77 main road. Its page records ownership by the Losonczy family as early as 1393, a Saint Andrew Roman Catholic church dating to 1726, a railway connection in 1908, and official town status granted in 1989 after Ottoman occupation had largely depopulated the area.

Verpelét lies at a recorded latitude of about 47.85 degrees north, in Heves County beneath the Mátra mountains beside the Tarna River, about 17.3 kilometers from Eger. Its page records habitation since the Bronze Age with evidence of Celtic and Scythian presence, a first documentary mention in 1252, county assemblies and court sessions held there from the 14th century, railway access in 1886 and town status in 2013.

Jászapáti lies at a recorded latitude of about 47.51 degrees north, in Jasz-Nagykun-Szolnok County in the Northern Great Plain, across 78.16 square kilometers. Its page lists a church, a train station, a memorial to local soldiers of the 1848-49 Hungarian Revolution and a protected former mill building among its architectural heritage, and notes sister city ties with towns in Romania, Slovakia and Serbia.

Albertirsa lies at a recorded latitude of about 47.24 degrees north, in Pest County in the middle of the Great Hungarian Plain, across 72.96 square kilometers. Its page records that it was formed in 1950 by the merger of two settlements, Alberti and Irsa, that it was granted official town status on July 1, 2003, and that it holds Hungary's first 750 kilovolt substation, inaugurated in 1979 to connect a major power line from Ukraine.

Újkígyós is the southernmost stop, at a recorded latitude of about 46.58 degrees north, in Békés County in the Southern Great Plain of southeastern Hungary. Its page notes that despite a name meaning new the settlement is believed to date back centuries, and that after World War II it expanded under agricultural collectivization, with infrastructure improvements from the 1960s and privatization of the collective farms after 1989.