Nagykanizsa

Nagykanizsa (German: Großkirchen , Groß-Kanizsa , Croatian: Turkish Kaniža , : Serb Kanije , : Velika Kanjiža or ВеликаКањижа ) is a medium-sized city of the megye of Zala in Hungary. It counts a little more: 50000 inhabitants. It is often called Kanizsa ( nagy meaning “large”). It is located not far from the Lac Balaton, near the Croatian border .

History

The name Kanizsa comes from the Slavic ( Knysa ) which means “pertaining to a prince”. It was mentioned for the first time in 1245. The Kanizsai family builds a castle on a small island of Kanizsa. The city and the castle knew their apogee in first half of the 16th century, when Kanizsa became a high place of the trade with the Italy and the Styrie.

Szigetvár and Kanizsa became the principal fortresses of the south-west of the Hungary. When the armies Othoman are took the castle in 1571, the inhabitants fled of the city. The castle became the seat of a Vilayet until in 1690. The city lost of its strategic importance after the Othoman departure of the S and the Council of war of Vienna made demolish the castle in 1702. At the beginning of the 18th century, the lords of the manor made come from the German , the Croatian and the Serbes to repopulate the deserted city.

In 1765, Lajos Batthyány, Count Palatine of Hungary, made come from the Piariste S which opened a school and a college. The first business school of Transdanubie was opened in Nagykanizsa; it became a Université in 1895. Many former students of this Université became famous such Benedek Virág, Pál Király, Ferenc Deák, Károly Kaán, Sándor Hevesi and Ferenc Mező.

Nagykanizsa knew a new phase of intense development in the years 1860. The railways connecting Nagykanizsa to Vienna, Budapest and Rijeka were built at this time. Industry and the Banque S developed: four district banks, an Austro-Hungarian bank and a bank anglo-Hungarian woman opened offices in the city. The interurban telephone was inaugurated in 1895. A hospital was also open this year.

Barracks were built during the First World War. That involved the construction of a distribution network of eau.
Kanizsa became a modern city equipped with a sewerage system and paved streets. But, the Treated of Trianon which concludes the First World War had disastrous consequences for the city. Kanizsa became a cut frontier town of its market radius in the south and the west. Fortunately, in the Thirties, the discovery of layers of Pétrole by the Eurogasco (European Gas and Electric Company) made it possible the town of be begun again. Nagykanizsa became the principal center of the Hungarian oil production.

The brewery of Kanizsa found its reputation to produce one of best the Bière S of the country. Kanizsa Trend developed and became a manufacturer of pieces of furniture known in all the Europe. The company of lamps which was going to become Tungsram was founded in 1965. It belongs today to General Electric and constitutes one of the principal manufacturing planies of bulbs in the world. The Károlyi park, of beautiful places and a lake intended for canoeing belong to the attractions of Kanizsa.

Twinnings

Personalities related to the city

Kanijeli Siyavuş Pasha, Othoman top dog between 1582 and 1593
Gyula Wlassics (1852-1937) politician
Sigmund Romberg (1887 - 1951) American type-setter of Hungarian origin, deceased with Hartsdale, New York
Ferenc Farkas (1905-2000) type-setter
Ferenc Fejtő (François Fetjö) (1909-) journalist & French writer of Hungarian origin
Ernő Buda (1921-2005) engineer in oil industry
János Rózsás (1926-) writer
Veronika Ádám (1949-) biochemist
Zsuzsanna Laky (1984-), Miss Hungary 2002 then Miss Europe 2003

External bonds

Official site
Kanizsa Trend
air Photographs of Nagykanizsa
Photographs of Nagykanizsa

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