Széll Kálmán tér [SEP] named after
Széll Kálmán tér
Széll Kálmán tér ("Széll Kálmán Square", formerly known as Moszkva tér or "Moscow Square" between 1951 and 2011) is a square in Budapest. It is one of the city's busiest transport interchanges (comparable to Móricz Zsigmond körtér farther south), which is served by a station on Metro line 2, tram lines 4, 6, 17, 56, 56A, 59, 59A, 59B, 61 and bus lines 5, 16, 16A, 21, 21A, 22,
here, either on foot or by bus lines 16, 16A or 116.
History.
The originally anonymous area became Széll Kálmán tér ("Széll Kálmán Square") in 1929, named after the Hungarian prime minister Kálmán Széll. Following the Soviet occupation and the Communist takeover in the country, the square was renamed to Moszkva tér in 1951 under the Rákosi regime. Following the fall of communist regimes in Eastern Europe, it was debated whether it should be renamed again to the original Széll Kálmán, but initially the