The name Szombathely is from Hungarian szombat, "Saturday" and hely, "place", referring to its status as a market town, and the medieval markets held on Saturday every week. Once a year during August they hold a

• James Joyce wrote that the character Virág Rudolf, the father of Leopold Bloom, his Jewish Irish protagonist in Ulysses, was from Szombathely.
• Savaria appears in Total War: Attila

Szombathely is home to the basketball team Falco KC, 2019 champion of the Nemzeti Bajnokság I/A, the country's top basketball league. Falco plays its home games at the Arena Savaria.

References
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Savaria, the Roman city
Szombathely is the oldest recorded city in Hungary. It was founded by the Romans in 45 AD under the name of

Mediumwave broadcasting station
Near Szombathely, there is since 1955 at 47°12′02″N 16°39′43″E / 47.20056°N 16.66194°E a mediumwave broadcasting station operated on 1251 kHz with 25 kW, which uses as antenna two 60 metres tall free-standing radio towers

• László Almásy, born in Burgenland
• Adrián Annus
• József Asbóth, winner of the 1947 French Open
• László Bárdossy
• Béla Bartók, composer