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Dorog (German: Drostdorf) is a small town in Komárom-Esztergom, Hungary. It is located at around 47°43′10″N 18°43′45″E / 47.71944°N 18.72917°E.
[edit] HistoryThe valley between the Pilis and Gerecse mountains has been inhabited since the New Stone Age. A Roman military road westwards from Aquincum passed by the present-day town of Dorog, where Roman dwellings with floor heating have been found, along with conduits, graves and milestones. When Hungary's kings resided at Esztergom in the 11th and 12th centuries, Dorog was where the cooks of the castle lodged. Roads from all directions met here in the Middle Age, and the Capter of Esztergom had the right to levy custom duties. The name, which appears in from Durug, Drug and Durugd, is first mentioned in an extant document in 1181. The medieval settlement, destroyed in the Ottoman invasion, remained uninhabited from 1542 until 1649. German settlers then arrived in three waves, followed by Hungarians again. Dorog in the 18th century became a centre of communications again. Regular 19th-century visitors to the posting inn on the Buda–Vienna road included philologist Ferenc Kazinczy, statesman István Széchenyi and magnate Ferenc Wesselényi. New houses and streets sprang up round the baroque Roman Catholic church built in 1767–1775.
The first written contact on mining coal at Dorog, dating from 1845, was drawn up between the Capter of Esztergom and the colliery managers Ferenc Wasshuber and József János Jülke. Thereafter many great engineers became involved in developing the Dorog mines, including Vilmos Zsigmondy, the geologist Miksa Hantken, and the mining engineers Henrik Drasche and Sándor Schmidt, who opened up and directed exploitation of richer and richer seams. Dorog at the turn of the century was a major mining centre, connected by rail with Budapest and by canal with the Danube. In 1906, Dorog's power plant was constructed (which was rebuilt in the 1980s with 120 m high chimney). In 1900 Dorog had 1966 inhabitants (1369 Germans, 477 Magyars, 55 Slovaks). A housing colony for the immigrant miners was built in the 1920s and 1930s. So were a large worker's hostel, a new Catholic church, a Reformed church in Transylvanian style (which was constructed by Transylvanian coalminers who moved there after the Treaty of Trianon), two new schools, a kindergarten, a modern hospital, a mine manager's club, mine manager's residences, a town hall, a World War I memorial and a recreation ground. Most of these were designed by the engineer Zoltán Gáthy. Some 300 men of Dorog lost their lives in the Second World War. A few years after the war, a lot of Germans were expelled. During the socialist era, Dorog became a typical socialist city with prefabricated block of flats. The mines gradually closed, so the government planted several factories (Gedeon Richter company, Hungaroton record plant, a machine factory). Dorog became a city in 1984. The town's industrial park established in 1999, there are five plants of the Sanyo. At the moment Dorog is developing rapidly, the unemployment rate is 4%.
[edit] EconomyThere are several factories in Dorog, including:
[edit] Population
Ethnic groups (2001 census): Religions (2001 census):
[edit] Traffic and transportRoads 10, 111 and 117 and the Budapest–Esztergom suburban railway line (with Siemens Desiro trains), all cross the city. The main street was rebuilt in 2006. [edit] Notable people from Dorog[edit] International relationsMain article: List of twin towns and sister cities in Hungary [edit] Twin towns — Sister citiesDorog is twinned with:
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