Wikipedia
Szabolcs may refer to:
- Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg, current administrative unit (county) of Hungary
- Szabolcs (village) in Hungary's Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county
- Szabolcs (county), the historical administrative unit of the Kingdom of Hungary
- Szabolcs (given name), links to people called Szabolcs
- Szabolcs (name), about the Hungarian given name Szabolcs
The village Szabolcs lies in the county Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg in the north-east of Hungary.
It got its name from the Hungarian leader Szabolcs who founded it and settled there in the 9th/10th century. According to Anonymus in the Gesta Hungarorum:
"he saw a place on the shore of the Tisza, and as he saw how [good/strong] it was, [so] he came to the conclusion, that by its strength, it must have been created for building a castle there. Rallying there common folk, he ordered to dig a big moat and ordered to build a quite strong castle of earth. This is now called Castle of Szabolcs".Either the leader, or the place, which once being the residence of the leader was the center of the region, gave the name to the historical county Szabolcs (which was united later with parts of other counties to Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg.
Szabolcs [IPA|ˈsɒbolʧ] is an ancient Hungarian name, probably of Hungarian or Hunnic origin. It is not known where the name derives from. The name is still very popular, its namesday is July 28.
Szabolcs was also the name of one of the leaders of the Magyars, the nephew of Árpád. He is also said to have been the second great leader of the Magyars. His power center was the now unimportant village Szabolcs, where earthen ramparts from this age have been excavated. His people settled in the area known as Szabolcs county.
Some of the oldest attestations of the name are to be found in the founding charter of the Dömös abbey (A dömösi prépostság adománylevele) (1138/1329): sobolci and in Anonymus' Gesta Hungarorum: zobolchu (12th/13th century).
Szabolcs is a given name. Notable people with the name include:
- Szabolcs Balajcza (born 1979), Hungarian goalkeeper player
- Szabolcs Fazakas (born 1947), Hungarian politician and Member of the European Parliament
- Szabolcs Gyánó (born 1980), Hungarian international footballer
- Szabolcs Horváth (born 1989), Hungarian football player
- Szabolcs Huszti (born 1983), Hungarian footballer
- Szabolcs Kókay (born 1976), Hungarian illustrator, wildlife artist and nature painter
- Szabolcs Kanta (born 1982), Hungarian football (Midfielder) player
- Szabolcs Kemenes (born 1986), Hungarian football player
- Szabolcs Perenyi (born 1982), Romanian born Hungarian professional football player
- Szabolcs Sáfár (born 1974), Hungarian football goalkeeper
- Szabolcs Schimmer (born 1984), Hungarian football player
- Szabolcs Schindler (born 1974), Hungarian footballer
- Szabolcs Székely (born 1985), Romanian football player
- Szabolcs Szőllősi (born 1986), Hungarian long track speed skater
- Szabolcs Szegletes (born 1978), Hungarian footballer
- Szabolcs Udvari (born 1974), Hungarian footballer
- Szabolcs Vida, former Hungarian motorcycle speedway rider
- Szabolcs Vidrai (born 1977), Hungarian figure skater