Szentgotthárd

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The town took its name from, and grew up round, the Cistercian Szentgotthárd Abbey, founded here in 1183.

In 1664, it was the site of the Battle of Saint Gotthard, where an Austrian army led by Raimondo Montecuccoli defeated the Ottoman Empire so that the Turks had to agree to the Peace of Vasvár, which held until 1683.

A second Battle of Saint Gotthard in 1705 was a victory for Rákóczi's anti-Habsburg Hungarian rebels.

During World War II, Szentgotthárd was captured by Soviet troops of the 3rd Ukrainian Front on 31 March 1945 in the course of the Vienna Offensive.

The town is also considered as a centre of Rába Slovenes, the slovenians living in the Rába region.

Pápa's climate is classified as oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb). The annual average temperature is {{Convert|10.0|C}}, the hottest month in July is {{Convert|20.0|C}}, and the coldest month is {{Convert|-0.4|C}} in January. The annual precipitation is {{Convert|763.4|mm}}, of which July is the wettest with {{Convert|94.2|mm}}, while January is the driest with only {{Convert|26.3|mm}}. The extreme temperature throughout the year ranged from {{Convert|-18.5|C}} on January 24, 2006 to {{Convert|39.1|C}} on August 8, 2013.

{{Weather box

|location = Pápa, 1991−2020 normals

|width = auto

|metric first = yes

|single line = yes

|collapsed = yes

|Jan record high C = 19.0

|Feb record high C = 22.4

|Mar record high C = 23.4

|Apr record high C = 28.5

|May record high C = 32.1

|Jun record high C = 35.1

|Jul record high C = 38.8

|Aug record high C = 39.1

|Sep record high C = 33.1

|Oct record high C = 25.3

|Nov record high C = 22.6

|Dec record high C = 16.6

|year record high C = 39.1

|Jan high C = 3.2

|Feb high C = 6.3

|Mar high C = 11.2

|Apr high C = 16.6

|May high C = 20.7

|Jun high C = 24.4

|Jul high C = 26.3

|Aug high C = 26.1

|Sep high C = 20.3

|Oct high C = 14.9

|Nov high C = 8.5

|Dec high C = 3.5

|year high C = 15.2

|Jan mean C = -0.4

|Feb mean C = 1.5

|Mar mean C = 5.6

|Apr mean C = 10.5

|May mean C = 14.7

|Jun mean C = 18.3

|Jul mean C = 20.0

|Aug mean C = 19.7

|Sep mean C = 14.8

|Oct mean C = 9.9

|Nov mean C = 5.0

|Dec mean C = 0.2

|year mean C = 10.0

|Jan low C = -3.3

|Feb low C = -2.4

|Mar low C = 1.3

|Apr low C = 5.6

|May low C = 9.4

|Jun low C = 12.9

|Jul low C = 14.5

|Aug low C = 14.4

|Sep low C = 10.4

|Oct low C = 6.1

|Nov low C = 2.2

|Dec low C = -2.3

|year low C = 5.7

|Jan record low C = -18.5

|Feb record low C = -17.5

|Mar record low C = -16.2

|Apr record low C = -4.3

|May record low C = -0.3

|Jun record low C = 1.7

|Jul record low C = 6.5

|Aug record low C = 4.6

|Sep record low C = 1.0

|Oct record low C = -7.8

|Nov record low C = -9.5

|Dec record low C = -18.4

|year record low C = -18.5

|precipitation colour = green

|Jan precipitation mm = 26.3

|Feb precipitation mm = 38.4

|Mar precipitation mm = 39.7

|Apr precipitation mm = 47.6

|May precipitation mm = 73.7

|Jun precipitation mm = 92.5

|Jul precipitation mm = 94.2

|Aug precipitation mm = 90.3

|Sep precipitation mm = 87.4

|Oct precipitation mm = 63.7

|Nov precipitation mm = 61.2

|Dec precipitation mm = 48.4

|year precipitation mm = 763.4

|unit precipitation days = 1.0 mm

|Jan precipitation days = 4.7

|Feb precipitation days = 5.2

|Mar precipitation days = 5.5

|Apr precipitation days = 7.3

|May precipitation days = 9.3

|Jun precipitation days = 9.9

|Jul precipitation days = 8.9

|Aug precipitation days = 8.2

|Sep precipitation days = 8.1

|Oct precipitation days = 7.1

|Nov precipitation days = 7.6

|Dec precipitation days = 6.6

|year precipitation days = 88.4

|Jan humidity = 85.2

|Feb humidity = 76.7

|Mar humidity = 70.1

|Apr humidity = 67.2

|May humidity = 71.9

|Jun humidity = 72.9

|Jul humidity = 72.7

|Aug humidity = 75.4

|Sep humidity = 82.3

|Oct humidity = 85.9

|Nov humidity = 88.9

|Dec humidity = 88.2

|year humidity = 78.1

|source 1 = NOAA{{cite web

|url = https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/archive/arc0216/0253808/1.1/data/0-data/Region-6-WMO-Normals-9120/Hungary/CSV/SzentgotthardFarkasfa_12910.csv

|title = Papa Climate Normals 1991-2020

|publisher = National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

|access-date = September 20, 2023

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20230920230214/https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/archive/arc0216/0253808/1.1/data/0-data/Region-6-WMO-Normals-9120/Hungary/CSV/SzentgotthardFarkasfa_12910.csv

|archive-date = 2023-09-20}}

}}

• Ferenc Joachim (1882–1964), painter
• Alajos Drávecz (1866–1915), Slovenian ethnologist and writer
• Ágoston Pável (1886–1946), Hungarian Slovene writer and poet, graduated here
• János Brenner (1931–1957), Roman Catholic priest, died here
• Irén Pavlics (1934–2022), Hungarian Slovene author and editor
• Tibor Gécsek (born 1964), hammer thrower
• Krisztián Pars (born 1982), hammer thrower

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

Szentgotthárd is twinned with:{{cite web |title=Testvérvárosok|url=http://szentgotthard.hu/hu/testvervarosok.html|website=szentgotthard.hu|publisher=Szentgotthárd|language=hu|access-date=2021-04-10}}

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• {{flagicon|FRA}} Delle, France
• {{flagicon|TUR}} Dilovası, Turkey
• {{flagicon|ROU}} Frumoasa, Romania
• {{flagicon|SVN}} Izola, Slovenia
• {{flagicon|SVN}} Lendava, Slovenia
• {{flagicon|ITA}} Tarvisio, Italy
• {{flagicon|GER}} Walldürn, Germany

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