Szombathely

[ sawm-bot-hey ]

noun

1. a city in W Hungary: founded a.d. 48.

Szombathely

/ ˈsombɔthɛj /

noun

1. a city in W Hungary: site of the Roman capital of Pannonia. Pop: 81 113 (2003 est)

Example Sentences

According to the Hungarian Athletics Federation, a non-performance-enhancing substance was detected in a urine sample taken Jan. 13 in his home city of Szombathely.

From Washington Times

They took a train to a village near the town of Szombathely close to the Austrian border.

From Time

Zoltan Horvath, 51, an engineer from Szombathely in western Hungary, said that a “tabula rasa” was necessary after the compromises of the post-Communist transition.

From New York Times

Tolbukhin's tanks surged across the plains of western Hungary, captured the rail center of Szombathely, then outflanked the Nazi positions southeast of the shallow lake called the Sea of Vienna to plunge into the Austrian province of Burgenland.

From Time Magazine Archive

The silence was broken only by the nervous chattering of the wife of one of the young freedom seekers, who could not for the life of her understand why she was being dragged off on an expensive flight to such a dull spot as Szombathely.

From Time Magazine Archive