The village Szabolcs lies in the county Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg in the north-east of Hungary. It got its name from the Hungarian leader Szabolcs who founded it and settled there in the 9th/10th century. According to Anonymus in the Gesta Hungarorum: "he saw a place on the shore of the Tisza, and as he saw how it was, he came to the conclusion, that by its strength, it must have been created for building a castle there.