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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