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{{Infobox settlement
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|official_name          =Nagykáta
|image_shield           =Coa Hungary Town Nagykáta.svg
|image_flag             =Flag of Nagykáta.svg
|image_skyline          = Saint George Church, aerial, Nagykáta.jpg
|image_caption          = Aerial view of the Church of Saint George
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|pushpin_map            =Hungary
|pushpin_map_caption    =Location of Nagykáta in Hungary
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|subdivision_type       =Country
|subdivision_name       =[[Hungary]]
|subdivision_type1      =[[List of regions of Hungary|Region]]
|subdivision_name1      =[[{{Hungarian county region|Pest}}]]
|subdivision_type2      =[[Counties of Hungary|County]]
|subdivision_name2      ={{Hungarian county link|Pest}}
|subdivision_type6      =Rank
|subdivision_name6      ={{Hungarian settlement rank|Város}}
|leader_title           =Mayor
|leader_name            =Dorner Gábor
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|area_total_km2         =81.61
|area_footnotes         =<ref name="ksh_cite_area">[http://www.ksh.hu/apps/!cp.hnt2.telep?nn=13435 Nagykáta] at the [[Hungarian Central Statistical Office]] (Hungarian).</ref>
|coordinates            ={{coord|47.41201|N|19.73963|E|region:HU|display=it}}
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|postal_code            =2760
|postal_code_type       =[[Postal code]]
|area_code              =+36 29
|area_code_type         =[[Telephone numbers in Hungary|Area code]]
|timezone               =[[Central European Time|CET]]
|utc_offset             =+1
|timezone_DST           =[[Central European Summer Time|CEST]]
|utc_offset_DST         =+2
|total_type             =Total
|population_total       =12739
|population_density_km2 =auto
|population_density_urban_km2 =auto
|population_density_metro_km2 =auto
|population_as_of       =1 January 2009
|population_footnotes   =<ref name="ksh_cite_population">[http://www.ksh.hu/apps/!cp.hnt2.telep?nn=13435 Nagykáta] at the [[Hungarian Central Statistical Office]] (Hungarian). 1 January 2009</ref>
|blank_name             =[[Hungarian Central Statistical Office|KSH code]]
|blank_info             =13435<ref name="ksh_cite_area">[http://www.ksh.hu/apps/!cp.hnt2.telep?nn=13435 Nagykáta] at the [[Hungarian Central Statistical Office]] (Hungarian).</ref>
|website                ={{wikidata|property|P856}}
}}
'''Nagykáta''' is a town in [[{{Hungarian county name|Pest}}]], [[Hungary]], about {{convert|60|km|-1}} from Budapest.
==Connections==
Express trains take 47 minutes to [[Budapest Keleti railway station]]
from Nagykáta and stopping trains about 65 minutes.
==History==
The history of Nagykáta dates back to the 12th century,
when the Pest county branch of the Káta family settled
in the region.
On the outskirts of Nagykáta, at a place called Kenderhalom,
can be found the remains of a village which was the
predecessor of Nagykáta at the time of the [[Árpád dynasty]].
The Regestrum of Várad mentions the name of the village as {{langx|hu|Káta}} in 1221. In the 15th and 16th centuries the name of Nagykáta appears as {{lang|hu|Csekekáta}} in several documents{{Citation needed|date=April 2010}}. The name ''Nagykáta'' appears first at the beginning of the 17th century.
Although the village was destroyed several times under the [[Ottoman Hungary|Turkish
occupation of Hungary]], it was always revived. The Káthay family were unable keep up with so many setbacks and could not survive the struggle. Heirless Ferenc Káthay had to sell his remaining estates &ndash; even Csekekáta &ndash; to Miklós [[House of Keglević|Keglevich]] in 1663.
When [[Buda]] was reoccupied Nagykáta was also marked for destruction, and it did not appear in
the official registers until 1665, but from 1696 the village had an ordained priest again, and the registration of births, marriages death began.
==Twin towns – sister cities==
{{See also|List of twin towns and sister cities in Hungary}}
Nagykáta is [[Sister city|twinned]] with:<ref>{{cite web |title=Testvérvárosok|url=http://www.nagykata.hu/page.php?8|website=nagykata.hu|publisher=Nagykáta|language=hu|access-date=2021-04-09}}</ref>
*{{flagicon|ITA}} [[Alfonsine]], Italy
*{{flagicon|MKD}} [[Negotino Municipality|Negotino]], North Macedonia
*{{flagicon|ROU}} [[Ozun]], Romania
==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:Nagykáta2.jpg
File:Clarion Hungary, aerial, Nagykáta.jpg
</gallery>
== References ==
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== External links ==
{{Commons category}}
* {{Official website|http://www.nagykata.hu/}} in Hungarian
* [http://www.terkepcentrum.hu/index.asp?go=map&tid=13435 Street map] {{in lang|hu}}
{{Nagykáta District}}
{{Pest County}}
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[[Category:Populated places in Pest County]]
{{Pest-geo-stub}}