Szeged is a city with county rights, the third most populous settlement in Hungary, the largest settlement in the Southern Great Plain, the seat of the Csongrád-Csanád county and the Szeged district at the confluence of the Tisza and Maros rivers.

The area has been inhabited since the Neolithic Age, the first archaeological finds date back to the Neolithic, i. e. Around the 6th millennium. Szeged was founded by the Romans under the name Partiscum, and salt, gold and wood were also transported on the waterways and land routes that pass through Szeged even today. The excavations indicate that the Hun king Attila had a base here, and after the Hungarian conquest, the Hungarians settled here in the 10th century. The flood of 1879 is one of the most decisive events in the history of Szeged and the development of today's cityscape. Most of the buildings were destroyed, and today's Szeged was largely built after the flood: nicer, more modern buildings replaced the old ones. Only 300 of the approximately 6,000 houses survived the flood.

(Wikipedia)