Sajoszentpeter

Sajoszentpeter is a city in Borsod-Abauj-Zemplen county, Northern Hungary. It lies in the Miskolc–Kazincbarcika agglomeration, 10 kilometres away from the county capital. The town changed into noted first in 1281 as Szentpeter. It were given the first part of its call later, from the river Sajo. The town become owned by the king, it belonged first to the Castle of Diosgyor, then to the Dedes property. During the Hussite fights the town turned into destroyed. It was constructed once more after 1466 however got its metropolis reputation again most effective in 1989. In the 17th–18th century the town was owned via several crucial noble families, among them the Rakoczi and the Losonczy households.

In the nineteenth century the formerly agricultural village have become an industrial one, coal mines have been opened and a pitcher factory became constructed. Being halfway among of the biggest business cities of the place, Sajoszentpeter couldn't keep away from being more and more industrialized for the duration of the Socialist technology, but, like in different cities and cities of Northern Hungary, the enterprise confronted a crisis after the Socialist regime fall, and unemployment have become one in all the biggest issues.