Eleven Hungarian Towns in Order of Their Earliest Record

The atlas records its start in 43 AD, which fits its description as the oldest city in Hungary and the birthplace of Saint Martin of Tours. It now serves as the administrative centre of Vas County, near the Austrian border.

Its name was first recorded in 1093, when King Saint Ladislaus gave it to the bishop of Pécs. Two battles near the town, in 1526 and 1687, marked the start and the end of Ottoman rule in Hungary, and its Busójárás carnival is on the UNESCO intangible heritage list.

A charter first mentioned it in 1219. It was the seat of Abaúj county between 1570 and 1647, and in 1590 Gáspár Károli completed the first Hungarian translation of the Bible here. It is the northernmost town in Hungary.

Its first written mention dates from 1235. The name means sixty in Hungarian, though scholars think it more likely comes from a Pecheneg tribal term. Its landmark is the Grassalkovich Palace, and it is the third most populous town in Heves County.

The atlas records 1238 for its first mention. The town sits between the Danube and the Tisza, had a Jewish community from the eighteenth century with a synagogue built in 1756, and saw a Hungarian victory under General Mór Perczel on 25 January 1849.

Its official founding year is taken as 1261. The Treaty of Trianon split the town along the new Hungary-Slovakia border, leaving a part on the Slovak side as Slovenské Nové Mesto. It lies in the Tokaj-Hegyalja wine region, a UNESCO cultural landscape.

Charters first name Pócs in 1280. Today it is a pilgrimage site around the Saint Michael the Archangel Greek Catholic Church, whose icon of the Mother of God is said to have wept twice. The original icon is kept at Saint Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna.

Documented about 1332 in a land division, when it was called Scenthus. It lies near the Tisza in Csongrád County, and the nearby Szegvár-Tűzköves idol is a rare Neolithic depiction of a male deity.

The atlas records 1349 as the year it was settled. The town northeast of Budapest is home to Szent István University and to a royal palace built for the Grassalkovich family, later the summer residence of Franz Joseph and Empress Elisabeth.

First mentioned between 1389 and 1417 as part of the lordship of Segesd, with its castle named from 1460. It stands on the Drava where the river forms the border with Croatia, and it is surrounded by the Danube-Drava National Park.

The newest stop, formed in 1984 from four settlements: Kisterenye, Maconka, Nagybátony and Szúpatak. It received town status in 1989 and is a former mining town under the Mátra mountains, on the Hatvan-Filakovo railway line.