Eger
Eger is a historic town in Northern Hungary, capital of Heves County, situated between the Mátra and Bükk mountains. Eger district outside of the city is covered in a separate article.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 49,500 residents
- Description: city in Hungary
- Also known as: “Erlau” and “Jager”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Eger Minaret and Cathedral Basilica of St. John the Apostle.
Eger Minaret
Scenic viewpoint
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The Eger minaret is an Ottoman-era minaret tower located in Eger city, northern Hungary. It is one of the most northern minarets left from Ottoman rule in Europe.
Cathedral Basilica of St. John the Apostle
Church
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The Cathedral Basilica of St. John the Apostle or more formally Metropolitan Cathedral Basilica of St. John the Apostle and Evangelist, St. Michael and the Immaculate Conception also called Eger Cathedral is a religious building affiliated with the Catholic Church that functions as the cathedral of the Archdiocese of Eger, located in the city of Eger, in Hungary.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Eger district.
Eger district
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Eger is a district in eastern part of Heves County. Eger is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Northern Hungary Statistical Region.
Eger
- Categories: town in Hungary, city with county rights, and locality
- Location: Heves County, Northern Hungary, Hungary, Central Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
47.899° or 47° 53′ 56″ northLongitude
20.3744° or 20° 22′ 28″ eastPopulation
49,500Elevation
168 metres (551 feet)United Nations Location Code
HU EGROpen location code
8GV2V9XF+HPOpenStreetMap ID
node 26757722OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yiddish—“Eger” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “إيغر”
- Arabic: “ايغر”
- Armenian: “Էգեր”
- Azerbaijani: “Eqer”
- Balinese: “Eger”
- Bashkir: “Эгер”
- Basque: “Eger”
- Belarusian: “Эгер”
- Breton: “Eger”
- Bulgarian: “Егер”
- Catalan: “Eger”
- Catalan: “Egri”
- Catalan: “Erlau”
- Cebuano: “Eger (kapital sa lalawigan)”
- Cebuano: “Eger”
- Chechen: “Эгер”
- Chinese: “Eger”
- Chinese: “埃格尔”
- Chinese: “埃格爾”
- Croatian: “Eger”
- Czech: “Eger”
- Czech: “Erlau”
- Czech: “Jager”
- Czech: “Jáger”
- Danish: “Eger”
- Dutch: “Eger”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ايجر”
- Erzya: “Эгер”
- Esperanto: “Eger”
- Esperanto: “Egero”
- Estonian: “Eger”
- Finnish: “Eger”
- French: “Eger”
- Galician: “Eger”
- Georgian: “ეგერი”
- German: “Eger”
- German: “Erlau”
- German: “HU-EG”
- Greek: “Έγκερ”
- Hebrew: “אגר”
- Hebrew: “ערלוי”
- Hungarian: “Eger”
- Inari Sami: “Eger”
- Indonesian: “Eger”
- Irish: “Eger”
- Italian: “Eger”
- Japanese: “エゲル”
- Kazakh: “Егер”
- Kazakh: “Эгер”
- Korean: “에게르”
- Latin: “Agria”
- Latvian: “Egera”
- Lithuanian: “Eger”
- Lithuanian: “Egeris”
- Lombard: “Eger”
- Lower Sorbian: “Eger”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Eger”
- Macedonian: “Егер”
- Malay: “Eger”
- Maltese: “Eger”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Eger”
- Mingrelian: “ეგერი”
- Moksha: “Эгэр”
- Northern Sami: “Eger”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Eger”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Erlau”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Eger”
- Norwegian: “Eger”
- Ossetian: “Эгер”
- Persian: “اگر”
- Polish: “Eger”
- Portuguese: “Eger”
- Quechua: “Eger”
- Romanian: “Eger”
- Russian: “Эгер”
- Russian: “Эрлау”
- Rusyn: “Ягер”
- Scots: “Eger”
- Serbian: “Eger”
- Serbian: “Jegra”
- Serbian: “Егер”
- Serbian: “Јегар”
- Serbian: “Јегра”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Eger”
- Silesian: “Eger”
- Skolt Sami: “Eger”
- Slovak: “Eger”
- Slovak: “Jáger”
- Slovenian: “Eger”
- Spanish: “Eger”
- Swahili: “Eger”
- Swedish: “Eger”
- Swedish: “Egri”
- Swedish: “Eğri”
- Swedish: “Jager”
- Swedish: “Jáger”
- Swedish: “Jagier”
- Swedish: “Jegar”
- Swedish: “Jegra”
- Tatar: “Эгер”
- Turkish: “Eğri” (historical)
- Ukrainian: “Егер”
- Ukrainian: “Еґер”
- Uzbek: “Eger”
- Venetian: “Egra”
- Veps: “Eger”
- Vietnamese: “Eger”
- Volapük: “Eger”
- Võro: “Eger”
- Waray (Philippines): “Eger”
- Welsh: “Eger”
- Western Panjabi: “ایگیر”
- Wu Chinese: “埃格尔”
- Yiddish: “ערלוי”
- “Eger”
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