Érd

Érd (Hungarian: [eːrd]; Ottoman Turkish: Hamzabey Palanka; German: Hanselbeck, Croatian: Andzabeg) is a town in Pest County, Budapest metropolitan area, Hungary.

On November 7, 2005, the Parliament decided that Érd would be granted the rank of city with county rights from the next council election in autumn 2006.

The three branches of the crown are reminiscent of the Ákos-házy Sárkány, Illésházy and Batthyány families, who were vital in the history of Érd.

The lower blue field shows a red dragon curved into a wheel, with a Latin gold cross in its looping tail.

It refers to the fact that the members of the Sárkány family were the soldiers of an Order founded by King Sigismund.

The local Municipal Assembly, elected at the 2019 local government elections, is made up of 18 members (one mayor, 12 individual constituencies MEPs and five Compensation List MEPs) divided into this political parties and alliances:[3] List of city mayors from 1990:[4] Érd is twinned with:[5]

The minaret of Érd was built in Ottoman Hungary (Hungarian: Török hódoltság), which was the southern and central parts of Hungary in the late medieval period, which were conquered and ruled by the Ottoman Empire from 1541 to 1699.