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From the site of Ukrainian
Heraldry:
"For the first time a royal town with the name of Lampertsas
is mentioned in a Latin text of the year of 1247. In 1284 it was
mentioned as Beregsas (from Slavonic "berek"-wood,
"sas"-a German tribe)".
Dov Gutterman, 21 October 2000
Not Beregsas but Beregszász, because it was in Hungary.
Szász means Saxons. Berehove (in Hungarian Beregszász, in
Russian Beregovo) is a town in the Berehove district of
Transcarpathia Oblast in Ukraine near to the Hungarian border (5
km east) on the Great Hungarian Plain. The town has got 29.110
inhabitants (46% Hungarian, 1990 census). Neighbouring
settlements are: Astely (Asztély), Muzhijevo (Nagymuzsaly),
Berehi (Nagybereg), Janoshi (Makkosjánosi) and Deda (Déda)
villages in Ukraine, Beregdaróc and Beregsurány villages in
Hungary. The town is the center of the Hungarians in
Transcarpathia and the proposed Hungarian Autonomous District
(referendum 01.12.1991). The territory of the town is
inhabited from the Ages. The first name of the town -
Lampertháza "villa Lamperth" - have been got about
Prince Lampert, the son of King Béla I. - by the legends. Prince
Lampert ruled the territory after the death of the king. The
settlement was devastated in 1141 by the Cumanians and
Petschenegs. The new Saxonian settlers from the Rhine Lands gave
the new name of the town: Lampertszásza. City from 1247, Free
Royal City in 1342. The name - Beregszász - was used first in
1504. In 1507 "Civitas nostra Beregszász alias
Laprecthszasza". On 17th of June 1657 was burnt up by the
Polish. In 1686 the town was destroyed by the Habsburgian
Army. In 1910 Beregszász was a town, and the capital of
Bereg County. Number of inhabitants in 1910: 12.933; 12.432
(96,1%) Hungarian, 221 (1,7%) Ruthens, 140 (1,0%) German and 140
(1,0%) others by mother tongue, 4.344 (33,6%) Calvinist, 3.909
(30,2%) Jew, 2.724 (21,1%) Roman Catholic and 1.956 (15,1%) other
(more of them Greek Catholic) by religion. In 1919 the town was
occupied by the Rumanian Army. The Treaty of Trianon allocated it
to Czechoslovakia (Subcarpathia). 1938-1944 part of Hungary
(after the Decision of Vienna). The Treaty of Paris (1947)
allocated it to the Soviet Union based on the
Soviet-Czechoslovakian Agreement.
István Molnár, 27 November 2000
I located Berehovo Coat of Arms at <www.bereg.uzhgorod.ua>.
István Molnár, 27 febuary 2001
From 17 May 2001 Berehovo is the fourth city of
Transcarpathia.
István Molnár, 10 December 2001
by Antonio Martins, 28 Febuary 2001
This flag of Beregszász (now Berehovo Town,
Transcarpathia Region, Ukraine) is Yellow and blue quarterly per
saltire based on: Dr. Széll Sándor: Városaink neve,
címere és lobogója (1941) as "Beregszász, Bereg Co.
(H)".
István Molnár, 20 October 2000 and Antonio Martins,
28 Febuary 2001