Mátraballa is a village in Heves County, Hungary, under the Mátra mountain range, beside of the Balla creek.

King Maximilian pledged it in 1575 to the chief captain of Eger, Baron Christoph von Ungnad.

After several changes of ownership, the other part of the village was sold by Count Ferenc Wesselényi to György Semsey in 1654, who obtained a royal donation for it.

The writer József Solymár [hu] spent his childhood in the settlement and later wrote several works about the everyday life of Palóc people.

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