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Zalaegerszeg Synagogue. Zalaegerszeg played only a minor role in the revolution and freedom fight in 1848–49. In 1870, it lost its town status and became a village, which meant a decrease in prestige, even more so since Nagykanizsa kept its town status. On 31 May 1885 Zalaegerszeg became a town again.
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Since 1974, the palace has housed the independent Helikon Palace Museum; it is visited by 200,000 people each year. The great book collection remaining in the palace is the only substantial aristocratic library now surviving in Hungary. Portraits of the Festetics family, including some in tartans, are also still in the palace.
Zalaegerszeg (Hungarian: Zalaegerszegi járás) is a district in northern part of Zala County. Zalaegerszeg is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Western Transdanubia Statistical Region .
Zala (Hungarian: Zala vármegye, pronounced; Croatian: Zalska županija; županija Zala) is an administrative county (comitatus or vármegye) in south-western Hungary.It is named after the Zala River.
A small part of former Vas county, north of Zalaegerszeg, went to Zala County. The part of Zala county north of Lake Balaton went to Veszprém County . Since 1991, when Slovenia and Croatia became independent from Yugoslavia , most of Međimurje is part of Croatia (mostly in Međimurje County ; Legrad is in Koprivnica-Križevci County ...
History [ edit ] In the 9th century, Mosapurc or Moosburg [ 4 ] was a fortified settlement built along the Zala river and was the capital of the Frankish vassal Lower Pannonian Principality ruled by a Slavic prince Pribina ( "Privinae civitas, munimen, castrum in nemore et palude Salae" in a Salzburg chronicle).
The Szabari family originated from the notable gens Hahót.According to the fourteenth-century chronicle composition, the founder of the kindred, knight Hahold descended from the Counts of Orlamünde, arriving to Hungary in 1163 upon the invitation of Stephen III to help to defeat the rebelled Csák kindred.