| Settlement Type: | Town |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Coordinates: | 46.2833°N 22°W |
| Pushpin Map: | Hungary |
| Pushpin Mapsize: | 300 |
| Timezone: | CET |
| Utc Offset: | +1 |
| Timezone Dst: | CEST |
| Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
| Official Name: | Battonya |
| Other Name: | Bătania, Batanja |
| Subdivision Type1: | County |
| Subdivision Name1: | Békés |
| Subdivision Type2: | District |
| Subdivision Name2: | Mezőkovácsháza |
| Area Total Km2: | 145.71 |
| Population As Of: | 2023 |
| Population Total: | 4966[1] |
| Population Density Km2: | 34.08 |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
| Postal Code: | 5830 |
| Area Code Type: | Area code |
| Area Code: | (+36) 68 |
Battonya (Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan: Bătania; Serbian: Батања|Batanja) is a town in Békés County, in the Southern Great Plain region of south-east Hungary. Residents are Hungarians, with minority of Serbs and Romanians.
It covers an area of 145.77 km2 and has a population of 4966 people (2023).
After the Ottoman occupation until 1918, BATTONYA was part of the Austrian monarchy, province of Hungary;[2] in Transleithania after the compromise of 1867 in the Kingdom of Hungary.
The Jewish community in the city was established in the second half of the 19th century and most of the Jews in the settlement were merchants and industrialists.[3]
The synagogue was built in 1896 and the community had a Jewish school.
In 1942, young Jews from the city were sent to forced labor.
In 1944, after the Germans entered Hungary, the head of the congregation and some of the community's dignitaries were arrested, and on May 13, all the local Jews were rounded up and finally transferred to Békéscsaba. Most of them were taken to the Auschwitz extermination camp.[4] [5]
After the war, three survivors returned from Auschwitz, six from forced labor and eighty from Austria. The community was reorganized, but many dispersed within a short time. In the 1970s, only a few Jews lived there.[6]
Battonya is twinned with:
