Kiskunfélegyháza (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈkiʃkunfeːlɛchaːzɒ]; German: Feulegaß) is a city in Bács-Kiskun County, Hungary.
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| Coordinates: 46°42′19″N 19°51′00″E / 46.70520°N 19.85005°E | |
| Country |  Hungary |
| County | Bács-Kiskun |
| District | Kiskunfélegyháza |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | József Csányi (Nemzeti Fórum) |
| Area | |
• Total | 256.30 km2 (98.96 sq mi) |
| Highest elevation | 105 m (344 ft) |
| Lowest elevation | 90 m (300 ft) |
| Population (2023) | |
• Total | 28,803 |
| • Density | 112.38/km2 (291.1/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Postal code | 6100 |
| Area code | (+36) 76 |
| Website | kiskunfelegyhaza |
Geography
editKiskunfélegyháza is located in the middle of the Great Hungarian Plain, 130 kilometres (81 mi) southeast from Budapest. M5 motorway, Highway 5, 451, Budapest–Cegléd–Szeged railway line and railway lines to Szolnok, Kiskunhalas and Szentes also cross the town.[1] The surrounding country is covered with vineyards, fruit gardens, and tobacco and corn fields.[2]
Name
editFélegyháza means "half church" in Hungarian, while prefix Kiskun refers to the region Kiskunság ("Little Cumania").
History
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Numerous Roman urns and other ancient relics have been dug up in the vicinity.
Conquering Hungarians arrived in the 9th century, adopted Christianity and settled down in the region by the 10th century.[3] The first settlements devastated by the Mongols in 1241–42, the region became uninhabited. King Béla IV invited Cuman settlers,[4] who also adopted Christianity, farming lifestyle and the Hungarian language.[3] The town was existing in 1389 when a document mentions Feledház, an earlier name for the settlement.[5] The town was ruined in 1526 by Ottoman troops and was uninhabited until the Christian troops liberated the area.[2][3][4]
Kiskunfélegyháza was reestablished by Roman Catholic Hungarian settlers[3] from Jászfényszaru and Üllés in 1743.[4] Queen Maria Theresa moved the courts and prisons for the Kiskun district to Kiskunfélegyháza in 1753 and granted town privileges also in 1774.[4][5]
Notable people
edit- Ferenc Móra (1879–1934), novelist
- Béla Magyari (1949–2018), cosmonaut
- Sándor Petőfi (1823–1849), national poet
- László Réczi (1947), wrestler
- Csaba Szűcs (1965), athlete
- Gyula Zsivótzky (1937–2007), athlete
- Tamás Sulyok (1956), lawyer, President of Hungary
Twin towns – sister cities
editKiskunfélegyháza is twinned with:[6]
Bagnols-sur-Cèze, France
Braunfels, Germany
Corund, Romania- Die, France
Feltre, Italy
Jászfényszaru, Hungary
Kikinda, Serbia
Rabka-Zdrój, Poland- Sighișoara, Romania
- Turda, Romania
Uhrovec, Slovakia
See also
editReferences
edit- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Kiskunfélegyháza". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 15 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 836.
- ^ Magyarország autóatlasz, Dimap-Szarvas, Budapest, 2004, ISBN 963-03-7576-1
- ^ a b Chisholm 1911, p. 836.
- ^ a b c d Károly Kocsis (DSc, University of Miskolc) – Zsolt Bottlik (PhD, Budapest University) – Patrik Tátrai: Etnikai térfolyamatok a Kárpát-medence határon túli régióiban, Magyar Tudományos Akadémia (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) – Földrajtudományi Kutatóintézet (Academy of Geographical Studies); Budapest; 2006.; ISBN 963-9545-10-4, CD Atlas
- ^ a b c d Antal Papp: Magyarország (Hungary), Panoráma, Budapest, 1982, ISBN 963 243 241 X, p. 860, pp. 405-407
- ^ a b "Hungary, Kiskunfelegyhaza". Retrieved 20 June 2013.
- ^ "Testvérvárosok". felegyhaziturizmus.hu (in Hungarian). Félegyházi Turizmus. Retrieved 2021-03-28.
External links
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- Official website in Hungarian