Szabolcs was also the name of one of the leaders of the Magyars, the nephew of Árpád.
His power center was the now unimportant village Szabolcs, where earthen ramparts from this age have been excavated.
His people settled in the area known as Szabolcs county.
Some of the oldest attestations of the name are to be found in the founding charter of the Dömös abbey (A dömösi prépostság adománylevele) (1138/1329): sobolci and in Anonymus' Gesta Hungarorum: zobolchu (12th/13th century).
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