Balsa is a village in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County, in the Northern Great Plain region of eastern Hungary.

Balsa
Balsa is located in Hungary
Balsa
Balsa
Coordinates: 48°11′N 21°33′E / 48.183°N 21.550°E / 48.183; 21.550
Country Hungary
CountySzabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County
Population
 (2015)
 • Total838
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)

In the 19th and 20th centuries, a small Jewish community lived in the village, in 1880 100 Jews lived in the village,[1] most of whom were murdered in the Holocaust.[2] The community had a Jewish cemetery.[3]

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