Verpelét is a town in Heves County, Hungary, under the Mátra mountain range, beside of the Tarna River.

In addition to Bronze Age and Celtic finds, Scythian relics were also found in the border of Verpelét, the settlement was already an inhabited area for thousands of years before the Hungarian conquest.

The names Vahret, Welp(e)rech, Wepret, Welpud, Welperek are found in the certificates dated 1332.

[1] From the middle of the 14th century the county assemblies and court sessions were held here on several occasions, in the presence of the Palatine.

The guard men of Ippolito d'Este, Bishop of Eger, defeated an army of rebellious peasants near Verpelét in 1514.

Baron József Brudern, the owner of the settlement, received from the ruler the right to hold four national fairs a year from 1797.

The Jewish community was almost completely destroyed in the years of the Second World War, the former synagogue now houses the settlement's fire station.

In the 20th century, new occupations appeared in the settlement: transporter, garbage collector, printer, hotelier, tire repairer, tailor, butcher and hairdresser.

New apartments were built, some three-story block houses were completed, which gave Verpelét an urban appearance.