Berehove

The city serves as the administrative center of Berehove Raion. It has a population of

• Name — Berehove • Native Name — Beregszász • Settlement Type — City • Residential House at Secheni Street, 32 • Palace of the Committee Court • Court of Count Gabor Betlen • Casino Building • Reformist Dormitory • Subdivision Type — Country • Subdivision Type1 — Oblast • Subdivision Name1 — Zakarpattia Oblast • Subdivision Type2 — Raion • Subdivision Name2 — Berehove Raion • Subdivision Type3 — Hromada • Established Title — Incorporated • Established Date — 1945 • Leader Title — Mayor • Leader Name — Zoltán Babják • Area Total Km2 — 30.2 • Elevation M — 115 • Population Total — 23325 • Population As Of — 2022 • Population Density Km2 — auto • Timezone — EET • Utc Offset — +2 • Timezone Dst — EEST • Utc Offset Dst — +3 • Postal Code Type — Postal code • Postal Code — 90200 • Area Code — +380-3141 • Blank Name Sec1 — Climate • Blank Info Sec1 — Cfb • Website — http: beregivska.gromada.org.ua/ • Subdivision Name3 — Berehove urban hromada

The city name is derived from the word "bereg", which means "river bank" in many Slavic languages. It has many different variations of spelling its name: Bereg, (translit. Berehovo), (translit. Beregovo), (Łacinka Bierahava), Czech and Slovak: Berehovo, Beregsaz, Bergsaß, Bereg Saski. Residents of Berehove voted on October 31, 2010, in a referendum on renaming the town to Beregszász, its Hungarian-language name. Voter turnout was less than 52%, with 4,688 voting for, 4,358 against, and 1,016 invalid ballots.

Part of the city is also a near adjacent village of Zatyshne of 504 people that has its representation in the city's council. Hungarian was made a regional language in Berehove in September 2012; meaning it would be used in the town's administrative office work and documents. This was made possible after new legislation on languages in Ukraine was passed in the summer of 2012. As of December 2020, all decisions of Zakarpattia's local councils on the functioning of regional languages, including Hungarian in Berehove, were cancelled.

Berehove has an oceanic climate (Köppen: Cfb).

In 1824, Berehove received the right to hold fairs 12 times a year. With the abolition of serfdom, the industrial development of the city began. Enterprises appeared, banks, savings banks, and credit institutions were opened. In 1910, out of 12,933 inhabitants 12,432 were Hungarians (96.1%), 221 Ukrainians (Ruthenians) and 140 Germans. On April 27, 1919, the city was occupied by Czechoslovak and Romanian troops. At the end of 1919, according to the Saint-Germain Peace Treaty, it became part of Czechoslovakia. It was the capital of the Kingdom of Hungary's Bereg County until 1920 and between 1940 and 1945. From 1920 until 1938 it was part of Czechoslovakia. Prior to World War II, the city had a significant Jewish population, estimated at 8,000 persons. Only four returned following the war. A local newspaper has been published here since December 1945. In January 1989 the population was 30,157 people. The first Hungarian-language college in Ukraine is in Berehove, the II. Rákoczi Ferenc College.

As of the 2001 Ukrainian census, Berehove had a population of 26,554 inhabitants. Numbering roughly 12,800 people, Hungarians were the largest ethnic group in the city. The second largest ethnic group were Ukrainians (10,300), followed by Romani (1,700) and Russians (1,500). The remaining population consists of Germans, Poles, Slovaks, Armenians and Belarusians. The exact composition was as follows: In terms of languages, a slim majority speaks Hungarian as their native language. Ukrainian is spoken by a large minority, smaller groups speak Slovak and Armenian. The exact composition was as follows:

• Rabbi Hugo Gryn (1930–1996) was born here on June 25, 1930, and became well known as a broadcaster in Britain. • Julius Rebek (born April 11, 1944), American chemist and expert on molecular self-assembly was born here. • Csaba Czébely (born December 3, 1975), the drummer of Hungarian heavy metal band Pokolgép. • Géza Kalocsay (born May 30, 1913, died September 26, 2008), former Hungarian and Czechoslovak footballer, football manager e.g. Standard Liège, FK Partizan, Górnik Zabrze. • Aranka Siegal (born June 10, 1930) is a writer, Holocaust survivor, and recipient of the Newbery Honor and Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, both awarded to her in 1982. • Andrea Bocskor (born August 11, 1978), politician who in the 2014 European Parliament election in Hungary was elected into the European Parliament. Hence, Bocskor became the first elected Ukrainian citizen in the European Parliament. • The parents of Nobel Prize–winning economist Milton Friedman lived there before emigrating to the United States. • Michael Moskowitz (born December 22, 1951), Ukrainian-American analytical chemist and translator, survivor of the 2023 Bedford explosion. • Sári Fedák (1879–1955), Hungarian actress and singer was born here. • Nandor Fodor (1895–1964), parapsychologist, psychoanalyst, author and journalist. • Alen Panov (1978), Ukrainian diplomat, lawyer and professor of Uzhhorod National University • Oleksandr Okipniuk (born 1999), Ukrainian freestyle skier

Berehove is twinned with: • Przeworsk, Poland • Satu Mare, Romania • Gödöllő, Hungary • Maassluis, Netherlands • Illustration — Jewish mikve in Berehove (now a bank) • Illustration — The dam in Berehove Postcard 1900 • Illustration — City limit sign, in three scripts, two languages • Illustration — Schönborn palace (Berehove)