Biatorbágy () is a town in Pest County, Budapest metropolitan area, Hungary. It has a population of 13,889 (2019). It was created in 1966 by the merger of Bia (German: Wiehall) and Torbágy (German: Kleinturwall).
Districts Bia () Torbágy ()
History
On 13 September 1931 a demented man (Szilveszter Matuska) blasted the train to Vienna on the viaduct of Biatorbágy. Killing 22 and injuring up to 122 people, 17 severely, it has been the most notorious sabotage on his crime history.
Sport Biatorbágyi SE, association football club
Twin towns – sister cities
Biatorbágy is twinned with: Herbrechtingen, Germany (1989) Remetea, Romania (2001) Kiti, Cyprus (2004) Dolný Štál, Slovakia (2012) Velyka Dobron, Ukraine (2013)
Notable people Ferenc Juhász (1928–2015), poet Gyula Juhász (1930–1993), historian Csaba Horváth (born 1971), canoeist
References
External links
in Hungarian, English and German