| Settlement Type: | Town |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Coordinates: | 47.1833°N 45°W |
| Pushpin Map: | Hungary |
| Pushpin Label Position: | top |
| Timezone: | CET |
| Utc Offset: | +1 |
| Timezone Dst: | CEST |
| Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
| Official Name: | Törökszentmiklós |
| Subdivision Type1: | County |
| Subdivision Name1: | Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok |
| Subdivision Type2: | District |
| Subdivision Name2: | Törökszentmiklós |
| Area Total Km2: | 185.16 |
| Population As Of: | 2002 |
| Population Total: | 23145 |
| Population Density Km2: | 125 |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
| Postal Code: | 5200 |
| Area Code Type: | Area code |
| Area Code: | (+36) 56 |
Törökszentmiklós is a town in Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok county, in the Northern Great Plain region of central Hungary. It is the third-largest settlement in the county.
It covers an area of 185.160NaN0 and has a population of 23,145 (2002).
The settlement was first mentioned (as Zenthmyclos) in charters of King Zsigmond in 1399.
In 1552 the castle of Balaszentmiklós fell under the Turkish siege. ("Törok" is Hungarian for "Turkish".) In 1685 it was destroyed.
In 1738 the settlement, then known as Török Szent Miklós, became a market town.
Between the 1990s and 2014 local politics were dominated by Fidesz and Fidesz-supporting independent groups, but Jobbik became the majority party in the Municipal Assembly at the 2014 Hungarian local elections.[1]
The current mayor of Törökszentmiklós is Imre Markót (Our Home Szentmiklós).
The local Municipal Assembly, elected at the 2019 Hungarian local elections, is made up of 11 members (1 mayor, 7 individual constituency MEPs and 3 compensation list MEPs) divided between these political parties and alliances:[2]
| Party | Seats | Current Municipal Assembly | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Our Home Szentmiklós | 6 | M | |||||||
| Fidesz-KDNP | 5 | ||||||||
| Independent | 1 | ||||||||
The association football club, Törökszentmiklósi FC, is based in the town.
See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in Hungary. Törökszentmiklós is twinned with:[3]
Lendava, Slovenia
Nevetlenfolu, Ukraine
Ryglice, Poland
Senta, Serbia
Sic, Romania