CEGLED

also spelled Czegld town, Pest megye (county), central Hungary. It is a characteristic peasant community of the Great Alfold, or Great Hungarian Plain. The town is a long-established agricultural marketplace for a wide area to the south in which vegetables, fruit, poultry, and livestock are raised for the markets of Budapest, 45 miles (72 km) northwest. Two famous historical speeches were delivered in the market squareone by a Hungarian revolutionary leader, Gyrgy Dzsa, in 1514 and the second by Lajos Kossuth in 1848. At Cegled the main railway line from Budapest divides, one branch running south to Szeged and the other east to Szolnok, Debrecen, and Romania. The principal road from Budapest through eastern Hungary also passes through Cegled. Pop. (1991 est.) 37,013.