Szarvas is a town in Békés County, Hungary. Placename Szarvas originated from the old Hungarian word szarvas, which means deer. …Szarvas is a town in Békés County, Hungary. Placename Szarvas originated from the old Hungarian word szarvas, which means deer. Deer also can be found in the coat of arms of the town. Szarvas is located in the Great Hungarian Plain upon the Körös River, 170 km southeast from Budapest. Highways 44 and 443, and the Mezőtúr-Orosháza-Mezőhegyes railway line also cross the town. The geographic centre of Hungary was near Szarvas before the Treaty of Trianon; a memorial in a windmill shape now marks that location in a park on a bank of the Körös River across from the Arboretum.