Szarvas
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| County | Békés |
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| Area | 161,57 km² |
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| Postal code | 5540 |
| Area code | 66 |
Szarvas (Romanian: Cerbul, German: Sarwasch, Slovak: Sarvaš) is a town Békés county in southeastern Hungary. The Hungarian placename Szarvas means 'deer' in English.
The first agricultural high-school in the Kingdom of Hungary was established here by a Slovakian enlightenment scholar and engineer Samuel Tešedík (in Hungarian: Sámuel Tessedik). The city was re-settled by Slovaks (among others) in the 18th century, many Slovaks still living in Szarvas. The town had 17771 Slovak and 7845 Hungarian inhabitants in 1900. The geometrical centre-point of the Hungarian Kingdom (before 1920) was near by Szarvas.
Today it is home to the Ronald S. Lauder International Jewish Summer camp, where every year hundreds of children and adults from post-communist countries pour in for eight weeks to share fun, laughter, and exchange cultures. Szarvas is a respite for many people.
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