Elek (German: Renndorf, Romanian: Aletea) is a town in Békés County, in the Southern Great Plain region of south-east Hungary.

[1] Until the Second World War, the town was home to the largest concentration of Germans in the county, with its population consisting almost entirely of Swabians.

Jews lived in the city as early as the 19th century and in 1944 many of them were murdered by the Nazis in the Holocaust.

[2][3] The town covers an area of 54.94 km2 (21.21 sq mi) and had a population of 5,567 in 2002.

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