Miskolc

Overview

Miskolc is the third biggest city (200,000) in Hungary (with the first being Budapest (2 million inhabitants), the second Debrecen (210,000), and the fourth Szeged (160,000).

Miskolc, city in northeastern Hungary, capital of Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County, located on the Sajó River at the mouth of the Szinva River. The city lies at the eastern foot of the Bükk Mountains in a pass called the Miskolc Gate.

The history of Miskolc, the descendants of the ancient settlement which was formed at the foot of the Avas Hill, along the two brooks called Szinva and Pece flowing into the river Sajó, can be traced back to paleoanthropic cultures where man's earliest implements were carved from stone and bone. The

Szeleta Cave near by Lillafüred and other caves in the Bükk Mountains have preserved not only the memories, but also traces of the hard life of man in pieces of clothing and finely worked clasps. At the top of the Avas Hill Neolithic tools were found. The region was gradually populated during this period over 10,000 years ago. The grinding implements and the richly ornamented ceramics found in the Bükk Mountains are 5,000 years old. The finds coming from the area of the today's Iron Works refer to a more developed way of life during the Bronze Age.

The first dwellers known in the Miskolc region at the end of the Iron Age were the Cotinus, one of the Celts' tribes. During the period of the Great Migrations, Teutonic, Sarmatian, Hun, and Avar people made their permanent home...more

History