The Most Iranian City In Europe

  During the regency of Béla IV of Hungary in the 13th century, Jazz people (sometimes mistaken for the formerly settling Iazyges), requested permission to settle in the Carpathian basin and were assigned the Jász-region. Based on language studies, these people can be traced to Indo-Iranian origins. Their former designation of Ász changed under Turkish and Slavic influences to Jász. Their settlements ranged from the southern borders of the Mátra westward to the Gödöllő Hills (Hungarian Gödöllői-dombság), eastwards almost to the river Tisza and south to the modern-day Szolnok. South of them, the Kipchaks (Hungarian Kun) were settled. In the 15th century, these two regions formed a castle district with the center at Berény, which also became the county capital of the Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County until 1876