Beregovo

Beregovo, known as Beregszász in Hungarian, stands beside the Verke waterway on the plain south of the Carpathians. A royal town from the thirteenth century, it became a centre of Bereg county. The surrounding estates later belonged to the Transylvanian prince Gabriel Bethlen, who had a residence built in the town. Beregovo suffered repeated devastation in the wars of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In 1703 Tamás Esze raised the banner of revolt in its market square, at the beginning of Francis II Rákóczi's uprising against Habsburg rule.