Nagyecsed

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|image_caption = Great Reformed church in Nagyecsed.

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official_name=Nagyecsed|

government_footnotes={{cite web |title=Település adatlap |url=https://www.valasztas.hu/telepules-adatlap_onk2019?_onknavigacio_WAR_nvinvrportlet_formDate=32503680000000&p_p_id=onknavigacio_WAR_nvinvrportlet&p_p_lifecycle=1&p_p_state=normal&p_p_mode=view&_onknavigacio_WAR_nvinvrportlet__prpVlId=294&_onknavigacio_WAR_nvinvrportlet__prpVltId=687&_onknavigacio_WAR_nvinvrportlet__prpMegyeKod=16&_onknavigacio_WAR_nvinvrportlet__prpTelepulesKod=103&_onknavigacio_WAR_nvinvrportlet_settlement=Nagyecsed |website=Nemzeti Választási Iroda |access-date=2 September 2024 |language=hu-HU}}|

leader_name=Kovács Lajos|

leader_title=Mayor|

leader_party=Independent|

subdivision_type1=County|

subdivision_name1=Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg|

image_shield=HUN_Nagyecsed_Címer.svg|

image_flag = Flag of Nagyecsed.svg|

area_footnotes={{cite web |title=Detailed Gazetteer of Hungary |url=https://www.ksh.hu/apps/hntr.telepules?p_lang=EN&p_id=06488 |website=www.ksh.hu |access-date=2 September 2024}}|

area_total_km2=43.85|

population_footnotes={{cite web |title=Census 2022 |url=https://nepszamlalas2022.ksh.hu/en/ |website=Census 2022 |access-date=2 September 2024 |language=en}}|

population_as_of=2022|

population_total=5927|

population_density_km2=auto|

postal_code_type=Postal code|

postal_code=4355|

area_code=44|

website={{URL|http://www.nagyecsed.hu/}}|

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Nagyecsed is a town in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county, in the Northern Great Plain region of eastern Hungary.

The old name of the town was Ecsed but over time it has been renamed Nagyecsed, meaning "grand" or "great Ecsed" to distinguish it. The area had close associations with a cadet branch of the Báthory family. Elizabeth Báthory was raised in the town's now ruined castle. Her main residence and later her prison was Csejte Castle, Upper Hungary, now in Slovakia, but she was buried in the family crypt at Ecsed.

The town's castle was demolished in the eighteenth century after the Kuruc uprisings.

File:Ecsed vára Das ehmals gedrückte, vom Türken berückte, nun trefflich erquickte Königreich Hungarn. Frankfurt u. Leipzig 1688.jpg