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Hajdúhadház is a town in northern part of Hajdú-Bihar county, in the Northern Great Plain region of eastern Hungary. It is district seat of Hajdúhadház district.
According to excavations, it has been inhabited since the Copper Age. To the west of the settlement runs the trail of the Csörsz-árok or ördögárok (Hell’s Trail),
built by the Sarmatians between 324 and 337, encircling the Great Plain. During the conquest, the Kabar tribes settled here.
The settlement was first mentioned in 1312. The villages that had formed in the area died out during the Turkish occupation.
According to the charter of István Bocskai in 1605, the Hajdús who supported him were allowed to settle in Hadház.
In 1876, Hajdúhadház was already a town with a regular council, at which time it became part of Hajdú County.
In 1891, it gave up its city status and became a large village, and between 1924 and 1934 it was again a town, and then again, a village.
Hadház, which lost its town status in 1936 during the period of the change of regime, regained it on 01 March 1989, after merging with the neighboring settlement,
Téglás, under the name Hadháztéglás.
Following the separation of the two settlements, on 01 May 1991, Hajdúhadház received the
town title independently.
Zoltan Horvath, 08 January 2025
The flag of the town is white with its coat of arms placed in the center of the flag.
The flag is decorated with red and blue triangles (wolf-teeth) along its free borders. Ratio seems to be about 1:2.
Image of flag:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=3856150851108842&id=136046739785957&set=a.170044676386163
https://www.hajduhadhaz.hu/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/IMG_111112.jpg
https://hbmo.hu/portal/2023/12/varosnapot-unnepelt-hajduhadhaz/
Zoltan Horvath, 08 January 2025
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image by Zoltan Horvath, 08 January 2025
It’s quite interesting that Municipal Decree No. 24/2014. (XI.28.) issued on 28 November 2014 has defined a different flag,
and it seems to be the valid decree, but I haven’t found any picture of this flag.
The de jure flag is horizontally divided into blue and white stripes, and the coat of arms is placed in the center of the flag.
There are inscriptions over and under the coat of arms, name of the town „HAJDúHADHáZ” is written over the symbol, while inscription „VáROS” (town) is placed under the coat of arms. Both inscriptions are golden yellow and are written in arc. Ratio is 100:146.
Zoltan Horvath, 08 January 2025
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image by Zoltan Horvath, 08 January 2025
In the right red field of a split-triangular shield, above a silver three-leafed stylized crown floating above, a severed, silver, armored arm holding a silver,
Hungarian saber can be seen. In the blue field on the left side of the shield, you can see a silver bastion standing on a green shield base with an arched gate,
two loopholes and five towers on top. On the shield there is a helmet with a silver crown and strap facing up. The helmet has a leaf-shaped helmet cover,
which is blue-silver on the right and red-gold on the left. Above the helmet, a rampant golden lion can be seen growing from the crown of the helmet,
holding a six-pronged tail in its right foreleg. This is the lion of István Bocskai's family coat of arms.
The current coat of arms was adopted on 12 December 2010.
Image of coats of arms (website of the town):
https://www.hajduhadhaz.hu/
Zoltan Horvath, 08 January 2025
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image by Zoltan Horvath, 08 January 2025
Until 2010, a different coat of arms was used. I found an article about its change:
https://civishir.hu/hir/cimert-valtott-hajduhadhaz
Based on this article, the reason of the change was returning to use of coat of arms used in 1800 years.
The depiction of coat of arms adopted in 1992 was not uniform. The star and crescent now disappeared from the new coat of arms,
the Hajdú was replaced by the lion of Bocskai, but the bastion and the arm holding a drawn saber in its right hand remained as a symbol of collective noble privilege.
Zoltan Horvath, 08 January 2025
