title: Nagykőrös
text: # Nagykőrös
  
  Nagykőrös is a town in Pest County, Hungary.
  
  János Arany taught there from about 1851, and a local museum is named for him.
  
  ## Notable people
  
  * Szabolcs Czira (b. 1951), politician
  * Frigyes Hegedűs (1920–2008), pentathlete
  * István Kecskés (b. 1980), boxer
  * Mór Réthy (1846–1925), mathematician
  * János Zatykó (b. 1948), agrarian engineer and politician
  
  ## Twin towns — sister cities
  
  Nagykőrös is twinned with:
  
  * Castrocaro Terme e Terra del Sole, Italy
  * Espelkamp, Germany
  * Haaksbergen, Netherlands
  * Reghin, Romania
  * Salonta, Romania
  