centre. In the 2010s Nagykanizsa attracts thousands of dental tourists. Education High schools Batthyány Lajos High School Politics The current mayor of Nagykanizsa is László Balogh (Fidesz-KDNP). The local Municipal Assembly, elected at the 2019 local government elections, is made up of 15 members (1 Mayor, 10 individual ward members and 4 compensation-list members) divided into these political parties and alliances: Sport Nagykanizsa FC, association football club Notable people Kanijeli Siyavuş Paşa, Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire Edmund Gutmann, known Hungarian-Croatian wholesaler and industrialist Elizabeth Jaranyi, Holocaust survivor and author Leopold Wittelshöfer (1818–1889), physician Ferenc Fejtő, journalist and political scientist Kornél Dávid, NBA player Lajos Balázsovits, Hungarian film actor Győző Zemplén, physicist Ferenc Farkas, composer Szabina Tálosi, football player Ferenc Mező, olympic gold medalist János Rózsás, writer, Gulag survivor and later expert Johann Schnitzler, Austrian Jewish laryngologist Gyula Wlassics, Hungarian Minister of Religion and Education between 1895 and 1903 Gallery Twin towns – sister cities Nagykanizsa is twinned with: Acre, Israel Bihać, Bosnia and Herzegovina Čakovec, Croatia Covasna, Romania Gleisdorf, Austria Kanjiža, Serbia Kazanlak, Bulgaria Puchheim, Germany Salo, Finland Shijiazhuang, China Tolyatti, Russia Bibliography Claire Norton, "The Remembrance of the Sieges of Kanije in the Construction of Late Ottoman and Modern Turkish Nationalist Identities," Parergon, 21,1 (2004), 133–154. References Notes External links in Hungarian Nagykanizsa Populated places in Zala County Historic Jewish communities Cities with county rights of Hungary