Szeged

It is possible that the name Szeged is a mutated and truncated form of the final syllables of Partiscum, the name of a Roman colony founded in the 2nd century, on or near the site of modern Szeged. In Latin language contexts, {{lang|la|Partiscum}} has long been assumed to be synonymous with Szeged. The Latin name is also the basis of the city's Greek name {{lang|el|Παρτίσκον}} Partiskon.

However, Szeged might instead have originated (or been influenced by) an old Hungarian word for "corner" ({{lang|hu|szeg}}), pointing to the turn of the river Tisza that flows through the city. Others say it derives from the Hungarian word {{lang|hu|sziget}} which means "island". Others still contend that {{lang|hu|szeg}} means "dark blond" ({{lang|hu|sötétszőkés}}) – a reference to the color of the water where the rivers Tisza and Maros merge.{{Cite web|url=http://www.szegedportal.hu/index.php?pg=101|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071018021019/http://www.szegedportal.hu/index.php?pg=101|url-status=dead|title=On etymology|archive-date=18 October 2007}}

Szeged has a variety of names in languages other than Hungarian. These are usually formed by the addition of a suffix -in to the Hungarian name: {{langx|ro|Seghedin}}; {{langx|de|Szegedin}} or {{lang|de|Segedin}}; {{langx|sh-Latn|Segedin}}/{{lang|sh-Cyrl|Сегедин}}; {{langx|it|Seghedino}}; {{langx|lv|Segeda}}; {{langx|lt|Segedas}}; {{langx|pl|Segedyn}}; Slovak and {{langx|cs|Segedín}}; {{langx|tr|Segedin}}.

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Szeged and its area have been inhabited since ancient times. Ptolemy mentions the oldest known name of the city: Partiscum (Ancient Greek: ΠάρτισκονKlaudios Ptolemaios. Handbuch der Geographie. Griechisch-Deutsch. Herausgegeben von Alfred Stückelberger und Gerd Graßhoff. Schwabe Verlag Basel. 2006, p. 310-311). It is possible that Attila, king of the Huns had his seat somewhere in this area. The name Szeged was first mentioned in 1183, in a document of King Béla III.

In the second century AD there was a Roman trading post established on an island in the Tisza, and the foundations of the Szeged castle suggest that the structure may have been built over an even earlier fort. Today only one corner of the castle still remains standing.Szeged by Dr. Trogmayer Ottó

During the Mongol invasion the town was destroyed and its inhabitants fled to the nearby swamps, but they soon returned and rebuilt their town. In the 14th century, during the reign of Louis the Great, Szeged became the most important town of Southern Hungary, and – as the Turkish armies got closer to Hungary – the strategic importance of Szeged grew. King Sigismund of Luxembourg had a wall built around the town. Szeged was raised to free royal town status in 1498.

Szeged was first pillaged by the Ottoman Army on 28 September 1526, but was occupied only in 1543, and became an administrative centre of the Ottomans (see Ottoman Hungary). The town was a sanjak centre first in Budin Eyaleti (1543–1596), after in Eğri Eyaleti. The town was freed from Turkish rule on 23 October 1686, and regained the free royal town status in 1715. In 1719, Szeged received its coat of arms (still used today) from Charles III. During the next several years, Szeged grew and prospered. Piarist monks arrived in Szeged in 1719 and opened a new grammar school in 1721. Szeged also held scientific lectures and theatrical plays. These years brought not only prosperity but also enlightenment. Between 1728 and 1744 witch trials were frequent in the town, with the Szeged witch trials of 1728–29 perhaps being the largest. The witch trials were instigated by the authorities, who decided on this measure to remove the problem of the public complaints about the drought and its consequences of famine and epidemics by laying the responsibility on people among them, which had fraternized with the Devil. In 1720, the ethnic Hungarian population of the town numbered about 13000 to 16000, while the number of the Serb inhabitants was 1300.Ádám Fejér, Magyarok és szlávok. (Konferencia, Szeged, 1991. május 30-31). Szerk. Fejér Ádám, H. Tóth Imre stb. (Kiad. a JATE Szláv Filológiai Tansz.), József Attila Tudományegyetem, 1993, p. 262, {{ISBN|9789634819929}}

The first printing press was established in 1801, and the old town hall and the civil hospital were built at the same time.{{Cite book |last=Farkas |first=József |title=Szeged Története 2 1686-1849 |date=1985 |pages=699 |language=Hungarian}}

Szeged is known as the home of paprika, a spice made from dried, powdered capsicum fruits. Paprika arrived in Hungary in the second half of the 16th century as an ornamental plant. About 100 years later the plant was cultivated as an herb, and paprika as we know it.{{Cite web|url=http://www.vickery.tv/acatalog/Paprika.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090728021200/http://www.vickery.tv/acatalog/Paprika.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=28 July 2009|title=Vickery TV Paprika (Hungary)|date=28 July 2009}} Szeged is also famous for their szekelygulyas, a goulash made with pork, sauerkraut and sour cream.{{Cite web|url=https://www.talktalk.co.uk/notices/web-space-closing.html?accessurl=http://www.fourman.dsl.pipex.com/recipes/szekelygulyas.html|title=TalkTalk Webspace is closing soon!!|website=www.talktalk.co.uk}} And also famous for their halászlé, fish soup made of carp and catfish.

The citizens of Szeged played an important part in the Hungarian Revolution of 1848. Lajos Kossuth delivered his famous speech here. Szeged was the last seat of the revolutionary government in July 1849. The Habsburg rulers punished the leaders of the town, but later Szeged began to prosper again; the railway reached it in 1854, and the town got its free royal town status back in 1860. Mark Pick's shop – the predecessor of today's Pick Salami Factory – was opened in 1869.

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Today the inner city of Szeged has wide avenues. This is mainly due to the great flood of 1879, which wiped away the whole town (only 265 of the 5723 houses remained and 165 people died). Emperor Franz Joseph visited the town and promised that "Szeged will be more beautiful than it used to be". He kept his promise, and during the next years a new, modern city emerged from the ruins, with palaces and wide streets.

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After the First World War Hungary lost its southern territories to Serbia, as a result Szeged became a city close to the border, and its importance lessened, but as it took over roles that formerly belonged to the now lost cities, it slowly recovered. Following the Loss of Transylvania to Romania, University of Kolozsvár (now Cluj-Napoca), moved to Szeged in 1921 (see University of Szeged). In 1923 Szeged took over the role of episcopal seat from Temesvár (now Timișoara, Romania). It was briefly occupied by the Romanian army during Hungarian-Romanian War in 1919. It also became a center for right-wing forces which would install Miklós Horthy as the country's new leader after the overthrow of the Hungarian Soviet Republic.{{Cite book|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781316137024/type/book|title=The Cambridge History of Communism|date=2017-09-21|volume=1 |publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-316-13702-4|editor-last=Pons|editor-first=Silvio|edition=1|doi=10.1017/9781316137024|editor-last2=Smith|editor-first2=Stephen A.}} During the 1920s the Jewish population of Szeged grew and reached its zenith.

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Szeged suffered heavily during World War II. 6,000 inhabitants of the city were killed, In 1941, there were 4,161 Jews living in Szeged. After, March 19, 1944 German occupation, they were confined to a ghetto together with the Jews from surrounding villages. In June, 1944, the ghetto was liquidated. The Nazis murdered the larger part of the 8,500 and some were forced into forced labor in Strasshof Labor camp, Austria.{{Cite web|title=Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database -- Szeged, Hungary Deportation List|url=https://www.ushmm.org/online/hsv/source_view.php?SourceId=49448&r=p|access-date=2021-02-21|website=www.ushmm.org}} Szeged was captured by Soviet troops of the 2nd Ukrainian Front on 11 October 1944 in the course of the Battle of Debrecen. During the communist era, Szeged became a centre of light industry and food industry. In 1965, oil was found near the city.{{citation needed|date=April 2022}}

In 1962, Szeged became the county seat of Csongrád. Whole new districts were built, and many nearby villages (e.g. Tápé, Szőreg, Kiskundorozsma, Szentmihálytelek, Gyálarét) were annexed to the city in 1973 (as was a tendency during the Communist era).

Today's Szeged is an important university town and a tourist attraction.

The Szeged Symphony Orchestra (Szegedi Szimfonikus Zenekar) gives regular concerts at the Szegedi Nemzeti Színház.[http://www.symph-szeged.hu/ Szeged Symphony Orchestra website], accessed 6 August 2012.

Szeged is situated near the southern border of Hungary, just to the south of the mouth of the Maros River, on both banks of the Tisza River, nearly in the centre of the Carpathian Basin. The Hungarian frontier with Serbia is just outside the town.

Szeged's climate is transitional between humid subtropical (Köppen Cfa) and humid continental (Köppen Dfa), with cold winters, hot summers, and fairly low precipitation. Due to the high hours of sunlight reported annually, Szeged is often called City of Sunshine ({{lang|hu|Napfény városa}}).{{Cite web|url=https://www.origo.hu/sport/egyeni/20060508anapfeny.html|title=A napfény városa|website=www.origo.hu/|date=8 May 2006 |publisher=New Wave Media Group}} On 23 July 2022, a maximum temperature of {{convert|40.1|°C}} was registered in Szeged.{{cite web |url=https://www.ogimet.com/cgi-bin/gsynres?ind=12982&ano=2022&mes=7&day=24&hora=0&min=0&ndays=30|title=12982: Szeged (Hungary)|author= |date= 23 July 2022|website=ogimet.com |publisher=OGIMET |access-date= 24 July 2022|quote=}}

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|Jan record high C = 17.5

|Feb record high C = 20.5

|Mar record high C = 24.9

|Apr record high C = 31.6

|May record high C = 34.0

|Jun record high C = 38.0

|Jul record high C = 39.6

|Aug record high C = 39.4

|Sep record high C = 37.6

|Oct record high C = 29.1

|Nov record high C = 23.5

|Dec record high C = 16.5

|year record high C = 39.6

|Jan high C = 3.4

|Feb high C = 6.3

|Mar high C = 12.1

|Apr high C = 18.5

|May high C = 23.2

|Jun high C = 26.9

|Jul high C = 28.9

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|Nov high C = 10.6

|Dec high C = 4.1

|year high C = 17.1

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|Mar mean C = 6.4

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|Aug mean C = 22.4

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|Oct mean C = 11.7

|Nov mean C = 6.1

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|Feb low C = -2.3

|Mar low C = 1.3

|Apr low C = 6.1

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|Jul low C = 15.7

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|Feb record low C = -23.1

|Mar record low C = -19.6

|Apr record low C = -6.8

|May record low C = 0.9

|Jun record low C = 3.9

|Jul record low C = 6.2

|Aug record low C = 7.5

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|Nov record low C = -11.9

|Dec record low C = -25.0

|year record low C = -25.1

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|Feb humidity = 80.2

|Mar humidity = 69.9

|Apr humidity = 64.9

|May humidity = 67.0

|Jun humidity = 68.4

|Jul humidity = 65.9

|Aug humidity = 64.6

|Sep humidity = 70.0

|Oct humidity = 76.5

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{{see also|University of Szeged}}

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The city of Szeged has 62 kindergartens, 32 elementary schools and 18 high schools. The two most prominent high schools (Ságvári Endre Gyakorló Gimnázium and Radnóti Miklós Kísérleti Gimnázium) are in the top fifteen in the country.

Szeged is the higher education centre of the Southern Great Plain and has built quite a reputation for itself. Thousands of students study here, many of whom are foreigners. The University of Szeged is according to the number of students the second largest and the 4th oldest university of Hungary being established in 1581. Ranked as the top university of the country on [https://web.archive.org/web/20051204102159/http://ed.sjtu.edu.cn/ranking.htm Academic Ranking of World Universities – 2005], and in the top 100 in Europe, it offers several programs on different fields of study.

File:ELI-ALPS research center under construction..jpg-ALPS research institute under construction in 2017]]

The Biological Research Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, which was built with the help of UNESCO funds, has also been a considerable source of advanced research. Scientists at this laboratory were first in the world to produce artificial heredity material in the year 2000. The building has served as a home to many well known conferences and continues to make contributions to the world of science.

The Szent-Györgyi Albert Agóra is a cultural scientific centre of Szeged which gives home to laboratories of the Biological Research Centre and to exhibitions of the John von Neumann Computer Society especially their IT historical exposition.

In 2018 the new scientific institution, the ELI Attosecond Light Pulse Source (ELI-ALPS) opened in Szeged establishing a unique facility which provides light sources within an extremely broad frequency range in the form of ultrashort pulses with high repetition rate which is needed for different kinds of physical experiments especially in the field of attosecond physics.{{Cite web|url=https://www.eli-alps.hu/?q=hu/Mi_az_ELI-ALPS|title=ELI-ALPS Research Institute | Towards the sharp end of attoscience|website=www.eli-alps.hu}}

It is also one of the main options for medical students who come from all around Europe to study Medicine in their recognized international campus.

{{Historical populations

|1870 | 56901

|1880 | 59143

|1890 | 68924

|1900 | 82803

|1910 | 96063

|1920 | 100175

|1930 | 108448

|1941 | 110740

|1949 | 104867

|1960 | 117515

|1970 | 145312

|1980 | 164437

|1990 | 169930

|2001 | 168273

|2011 | 168048

|2022 |158797|source=népesség.com, [http://nepesseg.com/]{{cite web|title=Census database - Hungarian Central Statistical Office|url=https://nepszamlalas2022.ksh.hu/en/database/#/table/WBS002}}}}

Ethnic groups (2001 census):

• Hungarians – 93.5%
• Romani – 0.7%
• Germans – 0.5%
• Serbs – 0.2%
• Romanians – 0.2%
• Croats – 0.1%
• Slovaks – 0.1%
• No answer (unknown) – 4.7%

Religions (2001 census):

• Roman Catholic – 54.5%
• Calvinist – 6.7%
• Lutheran – 1.6%
• Greek Catholic – 0.6%
• Others (Christian) – 1.3%
• Others (non-Christian) – 0.4%
• Atheist – 21.8%
• No answer (unknown) – 13.1%

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Szeged is one of the centres of food industry in Hungary, especially known for its paprika and companies like Pick Szeged, Sole-Mizo, Bonafarm etc. Other notable companies having their headquarters in Szeged are AMSY International,{{Cite web|url=http://www.amsy.net/en/contact/|title=Contact Info – AMSY|website=www.amsy.net}} RRE – Szeged,{{Cite web|url=http://rre.hu/elerhetosegek|title=RRE – Szeged Nyomdaipari kft. – Elérhetőségek|access-date=4 May 2018|archive-date=15 February 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190215074117/http://www.rre.hu/elerhetosegek|url-status=dead}} Optiwella,{{Cite web|url=https://www.optiwella.com/#Contact|title=Optiwella | Docsis Cable Modems & CMTS|website=www.optiwella.com}} Generál Printing House,{{Cite web|url=http://generalnyomda.hu/en/contact-us|title=Contact Us|website=generalnyomda.hu|access-date=4 May 2018|archive-date=27 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200927001547/http://generalnyomda.hu/en/contact-us|url-status=dead}} RotaPack,{{Cite web|url=http://www.rotapack.hu/en/contact.html|title=RotaPack – Contact|access-date=4 May 2018|archive-date=8 July 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190708153736/http://www.rotapack.hu/en/contact.html|url-status=dead}} Sanex Pro,{{Cite web|url=http://sanexpro.hu/en/contact/|title=SanexPro|website=sanexpro.hu}} Agroplanta,{{Cite web|url=http://agroplanta.hu/|title=AgroPlantaKft Szeged|website=agroplanta.hu}} Karotin,{{Cite web|url=http://karotin.hu/node/4|title=Kapcsolat|website=karotin.hu|access-date=4 May 2018|archive-date=27 September 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190927031230/http://www.karotin.hu/node/4|url-status=dead}} Florin,{{Cite web|url=http://florin.hu/kapcsolat/|title=Kapcsolat – Florin}} Quadrotex{{Cite web|url=http://www.quadrotex.hu/web/hu/kapcsolat/|title=Kapcsolat|website=www.quadrotex.hu}} and Szeplast.{{Cite web|url=http://szeplast.hu/contact|title=Contact|website=Szeplast Zrt.|access-date=4 May 2018|archive-date=17 April 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417102606/http://szeplast.hu/contact|url-status=dead}}

Others, like ContiTech,{{Cite web|url=https://www.continental-industry.com/TopNavi/Company/ContiTech-Division/Location-Profiles/Hungary|title=Continental Industry – Innovator and Technological Pioneer for Rubber and Plastic Products|website=www.continental-industry.com|access-date=11 December 2019|archive-date=11 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191211015241/https://www.continental-industry.com/TopNavi/Company/ContiTech-Division/Location-Profiles/Hungary|url-status=dead}} Duna-Dráva Cement, Szatmári Malom{{Cite web|url=https://amagyartermek.hu/szakmai-oldalak/partnerek/szatmari-malom-kft/78|title=Szatmári Malom|access-date=4 May 2018|archive-date=22 November 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161122101512/http://amagyartermek.hu/szakmai-oldalak/partnerek/szatmari-malom-kft/78|url-status=dead}} and Europe Match,{{Cite web|url=https://www.delmagyar.hu/szeged-es-kornyeke/megmenekult-az-egyetlen-hazai-gyufagyar-389470/|title=Megmenekült az egyetlen hazai gyufagyár|date=2006-11-15}} are not based in the city, but have production facilities there.

The Hangár Expo and Conference Centre{{Cite web|url=http://www.hangar-expo.hu/|title=Hangár-expó|website=www.hangar-expo.hu|access-date=11 December 2019|archive-date=11 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210411044950/http://www.hangar-expo.hu/|url-status=dead}} provides space for international exhibitions and conferences.

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Szeged is the most important transportation hub in the Southern Great Plain. Two motorways, M5 and M43, lie along the city border. Through the M5 Motorway Szeged is connected to Kecskemét, Kiskunfélegyháza and Budapest to the north and to Subotica, Novi Sad and Belgrade in Serbia to the south. The M43 Motorway – which splits from the M5 Motorway near Szeged – connects the city via Makó to Arad and Timișoara in Romania. In addition, there are other roads running from the city to Makó and Nagylak (main road 43), to Röszke (main road 5), to Kiskunfélegyháza (main road 5), to Ásotthalom and Baja (main road 55) and to Hódmezővásárhely, Orosháza and Békéscsaba (main road 47).

The Budapest-Szeged-rail line is an important rail connection, as well as the railway lines 121 (to Makó), 135 (to Hódmezővásárhely), 136 (to Röszke) and 140 (to Kiskunfélegyháza).[Rail transport map of Hungary by the Hungarian Rail Capacity Allocation Office (VPE)]

A tram-train system was constructed and inaugurated in November 2021, connecting Szeged with the neighbouring Hódmezővásárhely, thus creating the second most populous urban agglomeration in the country, after the capital. There was a proposal for its extension, even through the Serbian border, to Subotica.

The city is also a common stop for national and international long-distance buses.

• M5
• M43

• 121 (to Makó)
• 135 (to Hódmezővásárhely)
• 136 (to Röszke)
• 140 (to Kiskunfélegyháza).

Szeged Airport is the international airport of Szeged.

{{See also|Public transport in Szeged}}

Public transport in Szeged is provided by Szeged Transport Ltd. ({{langx|hu|Szegedi Közlekdési Társaság}} or SZKT), owned by the municipal government, and Volánbusz, owned by the national government. Forming the backbone of SZKT's network are 5 tram lines and 6 trolleybus lines, which are supplemented by 38 bus lines.{{Cite web|url=http://szkt.hu/vonalhalozat|title=Vonalhálózat – Szegedi Közlekedési Társaság}} Hungarian State Railways operates regional and intercity trains, as well as international trains to Subotica.

File:Pick Aréna 3.JPG handball team]]

The most popular sport in the city is handball.{{citation needed|date=April 2022}} The city has one well-known club the 2013–14 EHF Cup-winner SC Pick Szeged playing in the Nemzeti Bajnokság I. They play at the Pick Aréna, opened in 2021.

The second most popular sport is football in the city. Szeged had several clubs playing in the top level Hungarian league, the Nemzeti Bajnokság I. These are Szegedi AK, Szegedi Honvéd SE. The only currently operating club, Szeged 2011 play in the Nemzeti Bajnokság II.

• Szeged 2011, currently competing in the 2018–19 Nemzeti Bajnokság III
• Szegedi Egységes Oktatási Labdarúgó SC, currently competing in the 2018–19 Nemzeti Bajnokság III
• Szegedi VSE, currently competing in the Csongrád county championship
• Szegedi EAC, defunct
• Szegedi AK, defunct
• Szegedi Honvéd SE, defunct

Motorcycle speedway has had a long association with the city. The first track was at the SZEAC athletics stadium (also known as the Felső Tisza-parti Stadion or Városi stadion), which was located where the Pick Aréna is today.{{cite web |url=https://www.sulinet.hu/oroksegtar/data/telepulesek_ertekei/szeged/szeged_tortenete_5/pages/026_a_varos_sportja.htm |title=I. A Varos Sprotja | website=Sulinet |access-date=14 February 2024}} The venue hosted finals of the Hungarian Individual Speedway Championship.

From 1978, the Volán speedway club moved to a new track built on Napos út at Béke telepi. This venue held important events, including qualifying rounds of the Speedway World Championship in 1983 and 1984{{cite web |url=https://dlprezes.pl.tl/SPEEDWAY--_--Indywidualne-mistrzostwa-%26%23346%3Bwiata-----------k1-World-Speedway-Championship-k2-.htm |title=World Championship |website=Metal Speedway |access-date=14 February 2024}}{{cite web |url=http://www.speedway.org/history/ |title=World Championship | website=Speedway.org |access-date=14 February 2024}} and a qualifying round of the Speedway World Team Cup in 1988 and 1990.{{cite web |url=http://www.internationalspeedway.co.uk/ |title=Speedway World Cup | website=International Speedway |access-date=14 February 2024}} The track closed, partly because of noise issues in a residential area, resulting in the speedway moving out of the city, 25 kilometres west, near to Mórahalom ({{coord|46|10|14|N|19|54|49|E|}}).

The current mayor of Szeged is László Botka (Association for Szeged).

The local Municipal Assembly, elected at the 2019 local government elections, is made up of 33 members (1 Mayor, 23 Individual constituencies MEPs and 9 Compensation List MEPs) divided into this political parties and alliances:{{cite web|title=Városi közgyűlés tagjai 2019–2024 – Szeged (Csongrád megye)|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&p_p_col_id=column-2&p_p_col_pos=1&p_p_col_count=5&_onknavigacio_WAR_nvinvrportlet_prpVlId=294&_onknavigacio_WAR_nvinvrportlet_prpVltId=687&_onknavigacio_WAR_nvinvrportlet_prpMegyeKod=06&_onknavigacio_WAR_nvinvrportlet_prpTelepulesKod=051&_onknavigacio_WAR_nvinvrportlet_settlement=szeged|agency=valasztas.hu}}

List of City Mayors from 1990:{{cite web|title=Szeged város polgármesterei és tanácselnökei 1715-től napjainkig|url=https://www.szegedvaros.hu/aranyoldalak/szeged-varos-polgarmesterei-es-tanacselnokei-1715-tol-napjainkig/|agency=szegedvaros.hu|access-date=3 November 2019|archive-date=4 November 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191104212418/https://www.szegedvaros.hu/aranyoldalak/szeged-varos-polgarmesterei-es-tanacselnokei-1715-tol-napjainkig/|url-status=dead}}

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The city offers a wide range of media – television and radio stations, and print and online newspapers.

• Szeged TV
• Tarjáni Kábeltévé Stúdió
• TiszapART TV
• Telin Televízió

• "Rádió 88" FM 95,4 MHz
• All in Party Radio
• Rádió Mi, 89,9 MHz
• Lánchíd Rádió, FM 100,2 MHz
• MR1 Kossuth Rádió, FM 90,3 MHz
• MR2 Petőfi Rádió, 104,6 MHz
• MR3 Bartók Rádió, 105,7 MHz
• Dankó Rádió, 93,1 MHz
• [http://www.radio1szeged.hu/ Rádió1], 87,9 MHz

• Délmagyarország ({{URL|http://delmagyar.hu/}})
• {{URL|http://szeged.hu/}}
• {{URL|http://szegeder.hu/}}
• {{URL|http://szegedma.hu/}}
• {{URL|http://szeged365.hu/}}
• {{URL|https://szegedify.com/}}

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{{Category see also|People from Szeged}}

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• Adrián Annus (1975), hammer thrower
• Gábor Agárdy (1922–2006), actor
• Miloš Babić (1904–1968), artist
• Béla Balázs (1884–1949), writer, poet, film critic
• Zsolt Becsey (1964), politician
• Joseph Csaky (1888–1971) sculptor
• Krisztián Cser (1977) opera singer, physicist
• Attila Czene (1974), Olympic champion medley swimmer
• János Csonka (1852–1939), engineer, co-inventor of the carburetor
• Mihály Erdélyi (1895–1979), operetta composer
• Sophie Evans (1976), adult movie star
• Ivan Fellegi (1935), Chief Statistician of Canada
• Rajmund Fodor (1976), Olympic champion water polo player
• Jenő Huszka (1875–1960), composer
• Éva Janikovszky (1926–2003), writer
• Ferenc Joachim (1882–1964), painter
• Gyula Juhász (1883–1937), poet
• Esther Jungreis, Orthodox Jewish outreach speaker
• Judith Karasz (1912–1977), photographer and Bauhaus graduate
• Györgyi Lang (1957–2023) actress and singer, member of the Hungarian music duo Pa-Dö-Dő.
• {{Interlanguage link|Moses Max Löw|de|vertical-align=sup}} (1857{{ndash}}?), architect
• Géza Maróczy (1870–1951), chess grand master
• Anita Márton (1989), shot putter
• Tamás Molnár (1975), Olympic champion water polo player
• Nickolas Muray (born Miklós Mandl; 1892–1965), Hungarian-born American photographer and Olympic fencer
• Róbert Nagy (1967), speedway rider
• László Paskai (1927–2015), Archbishop of Esztergom
• Szilvia Peter Szabo (1982), singer
• Willy Pogany (1882–1955), illustrator
• György Sebők (1922–1999), pianist
• Julius Stahel (1825–1912), American Civil War general and diplomat
• Hanna Tetteh (1967), Foreign minister of the Republic of Ghana
• {{Interlanguage link|Péter Ágnes|hu|vertical-align=sup}} (1983), singer
• Marianne Varnay (1898), architect https://architectuul.com/architect/marianne-varnay
• Attila Vajda (1983), Olympic champion canoer
• Vilmos Zsigmond (1930), cinematographer

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• Mihály Babits poet, writer
• Lipót Fejér mathematician
• Ferenc Fricsay conductor
• Alfréd Haar mathematician
• Attila József poet
• László Kalmár mathematician
• Katalin Karikó Nobel prize winner biochemist
• Dezső Kosztolányi poet, novelist
• Peter Leko chess grandmaster
• Immanuel Löw rabbi, Judaic scholar, politician
• Leopold Löw rabbi, historian and Judaic scholar
• Kálmán Mikszáth writer
• Ferenc Móra writer, archaeologist
• Miklós Radnóti poet
• Frigyes Riesz mathematician
• Albert Szent-Györgyi Nobel prize winner chemist and biologist
• Béla Szőkefalvi-Nagy mathematician
• Philip Wodianer communal worker
• Adele Zay (1848–1928), teacher and feminist

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{{See also|List of twin towns and sister cities in Hungary}}

Szeged is twinned with:{{cite web|title=Testvérvárosok|url=http://szegedtourism.hu/hu/helyek/testvervarosok/?accessibility=0|website=szegedtourism.hu|publisher=Szeged Tourism|language=hu|access-date=2019-10-12|archive-date=3 March 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210303204034/http://szegedtourism.hu/hu/helyek/testvervarosok/?accessibility=0|url-status=dead}}

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• {{flagicon|GBR}} Cambridge, United Kingdom (1987)
• {{flagicon|GER}} Darmstadt, Germany (1990)
• {{flagicon|MNE}} Kotor, Montenegro (2001)
• {{flagicon|CYP}} Larnaca, Cyprus (1994)
• {{flagicon|BEL}} Liège, Belgium (2001)
• {{flagicon|POL}} Łódź, Poland (2004)
• {{flagicon|FRA}} Nice, France (1969)
• {{flagicon|UKR}} Odesa, Ukraine (1957)
• {{flagicon|ITA}} Parma, Italy (1988)
• {{flagicon|CRO}} Pula, Croatia (2003)
• {{flagicon|UKR}} Rakhiv, Ukraine (1939, renewed 1997)
• {{flagicon|SRB}} Subotica, Serbia (1966, renewed 2004)
• {{flagicon|ROU}} Târgu Mureș, Romania (1997)
• {{flagicon|ROU}} Timișoara, Romania (1998)
• {{flagicon|USA}} Toledo, United States (1990)
• {{flagicon|FIN}} Turku, Finland (1971)
• {{flagicon|CHN}} Weinan, China (1999)

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• {{flagicon|SRB}} Novi Sad, Serbia (2001)

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Klauzal ter - panoramio.jpg|Klauzál Square

Szeged nagy posta.jpg|Postal Palace

A szeged-alsóvárosi ferences rendház és templom légi felvételen.jpg|Franciscan monastery and church

Hungary szeged dome night 5.jpg|Votive Church at night

Szeged-Alsóváros, ferences templom 2021 11.jpg|Relief of King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary

Szeged IV. Béla szobra Somorjai 006.jpg|Statue of King Béla IV of Hungary

Szeged, Kárász utca 16., Magyar Ede 16KJ.jpg|Unger–Mayer House (1911)

Klebelsberg1.JPG|Statue of Kuno von Klebelsberg

Szeged - Milkó-palota (29738098347).jpg|Art Nouveau architecture

Szeged, Árvízi emlékmű SF.jpg|The Great Flood (1879) Statue

Szegedi Tudományegyetem.jpg|Rector's Building, University of Szeged

Szeged-egyetem5.jpg|Institute of Informatics & IT Department, University of Szeged

Szeged-egyetem4.jpg|Faculty of Sciences (the chemistry building), University of Szeged

Hungary szeged dom2.jpg|View from the Votive Church Dome

Megyeszékhely - Csongrád megye - Szeged.jpg|Aerial photography

Tisza-szeged1.jpg|Belvárosi bridge on the Tisza river

Szeged-paprika1.jpg|Capsicum fruits in Szeged

AnnafürdőSzeged06.jpg|Anna Thermal-Bath

Szeged, Hungary. Suspended bridge.jpg|Szeged bridge on Tisza

Szegedi Fekete-ház.jpg|Fekete-house

• Public transport in Szeged
• Szeged Symphony Orchestra
• National Theatre of Szeged

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