Gyula (town)

Gyula (Romanian: Giula) is a town in Békés county in south-eastern Hungary. It lies close to the border with Romania, on the river Fehér-Körös (Romanian: Crişul Alb).

History

The first recorded reference to Gyula was in a document dated 1313 which mentions a monastery called Gyulamonostor (Julamonustra in Latin.) By 1332 the settlement around the monastery was being called Gyula. There are two explanations for the origin of the name. The first is that following the occupation of the Carpathian Basin by the Magyar tribes, the tribe of the gyula settled in the area. More likely is the second explanation that a lord called Gyula founded the monastery and its settlement.

Gyula had 32,700 inhabitants in 2004.

External link

• Official site (in Hungarian)