Gyula
Gyula is a town in Békés County, Hungary. The town is best known for its medieval castle and a thermal bath. Ferenc Erkel, the composer of the Hungarian national anthem, and Albrecht Dürer the Elder, the father of Albrecht Dürer, were also born in Gyula, as was the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate László Krasznahorkai.
- Type: Town with 27,800 residents
- Description: city in Hungary
- Also known as: “Békésgyula”, “Deutsch-Jula”, “Ðula”, “Güle”, “Gyula, Hungary”, “Gyulae”, “Gyulavári”, “Julau”, “ג’ולה (עיר)”, and “גיולה (עיר)”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Saint Nicholas Orthodox cathedral in Gyula and Gyula railway station.
Saint Nicholas Orthodox cathedral in Gyula
Church
Saint Nicholas Orthodox cathedral in Gyula is a church.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Vărșand and Fényes.
Fényes
Suburb
Photo: Beyond silence, Public domain.
Gyula
- Categories: town in Hungary, border city, and locality
- Location: Békés County, Southern Great Plain, Hungary, Central Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
46.64387° or 46° 38′ 38″ north
Longitude
21.27476° or 21° 16′ 29″ east
Population
27,800
Elevation
86 metres (282 feet)
UN/LOCODE
HU GYU
Open location code
8GR3J7VF+GW
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Gyula” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جيولا”
- Armenian: “Դյուլա”
- Azerbaijani: “Dyula”
- Basque: “Gyula”
- Bavarian: “Gyula”
- Belarusian: “Дзьюла”
- Bulgarian: “Гюла”
- Catalan: “Gyula”
- Cebuano: “Gyula”
- Chinese: “久洛”
- Chinese: “朱拉”
- Croatian: “Gyula”
- Czech: “Gyula”
- Danish: “Gyula”
- Dutch: “Gyula”
- Esperanto: “Gyula”
- Estonian: “Gyula”
- Finnish: “Gyula”
- French: “Gyula”
- German: “Gyula”
- German: “Jula”
- Greek: “Γκιούλα”
- Hebrew: “דיולה”
- Hungarian: “Gyula”
- Irish: “Gyula”
- Italian: “Gyula”
- Japanese: “ジュラ”
- Korean: “줄러”
- Latin: “Gyula”
- Lithuanian: “Diula”
- Lombard: “Gyula”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Gyula”
- Macedonian: “Ѓула”
- Malay: “Gyula”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Gyula”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gyula”
- Persian: “دولا”
- Persian: “دیولا”
- Polish: “Gyula”
- Quechua: “Gyula”
- Romanian: “Giula”
- Romanian: “Gyula”
- Romanian: “Jula”
- Russian: “Дьюла”
- Scots: “Gyula”
- Serbian: “Đula”
- Serbian: “Ђула”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Gyula”
- Silesian: “Gyula (mjasto)”
- Silesian: “Gyula”
- Slovak: “Gyula”
- Slovenian: “Gyula”
- Spanish: “Gyula”
- Swedish: “Gyula”
- Tajik: “Дуло”
- Turkish: “Gyula”
- Ukrainian: “Дьюла”
- Ukrainian: “Дюла”
- Urdu: “گیولا، ہنگری”
- Uzbek: “Gyula, Vengriya”
- Uzbek: “Gyula”
- Vietnamese: “Gyula”
- Volapük: “Gyula”
- Welsh: “Gyula”
- “Gyula”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Honvéd utcai lakótelep and Magyarváros.
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Highlights: Mogyoróssy János Városi Könyvtár and Japánkert.
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