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Jászság (English: Jazygia) is a historical, ethnographical and geographical region in Hungary. Its 1161-km² territory is situated in the north-western part of the Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok county. The main town in the region is Jászberény. Jászság is inhabited by the Jassic people, who are of Ossetian origin. The population of the region is around 85,000.

History

In ancient times, this area was settled by Celts, Dacians, Sarmatians, and Germanic peoples. It was part of the Dacian Kingdom of Burebista in the first century BC. In the 1st century AD, an Sarmatian tribe known as the Iazyges settled in this region. The connection between the modern Jassic people and the Iazyges is disputed. Most Hungarian scholars claim that they were two different Sarmatian groups, and that the Jassic people are relatives of the Alans and the Ossetians. Others think that the Iazyges either migrated back east onto the steppes in the confusion of the Hun and Avar invasions of the 5th-7th centuries, or the Jassic people were a fresh branch of the Iazyges that had never moved west before and remained throughout this period in what is now southern Russia.




Jászberény - miasto w północnych Węgrzech, około 100 km na wschód od Budapesztu, w komitacie Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok. Leży nad środkowym biegiem rzeki Zagyva, w północnej części Międzyrzecza Dunaju i Cisy (węg. Duna Tisza köze).

Ludność - 28.293 mieszkańców (2001), powierzchnia - 221,35 ha.

Jászberény leży w historycznej krainie Jaszság (Jazygia), od XIII wieku zamieszkanej przez irańskie plemię Jasów (węg. Jász). Jest jej ośrodkiem kulturalnym i administracyjnym.


Jászberény Zagyva river