Kiskunfélegyháza

Kiskunfélegyháza
city

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Kiskunfélegyháza

Location of Kiskunfélegyháza

Coordinates: 46°42′19″N 19°51′00″E / 46.70520°N 19.85005°E / 46.70520; 19.85005Coordinates: 46°42′19″N 19°51′00″E / 46.70520°N 19.85005°E / 46.70520; 19.85005
Country  Hungary
County Bács-Kiskun
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 (2011)
  Total 30,172
  Density 117.7/km2 (305/sq mi)
Time zone CET (UTC+1)
  Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2)
Postal code 6100
Area code 76
Website www.kiskunfelegyhaza.hu
Eclectic apartment, built in 1899

Kiskunfélegyháza (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈkiʃkunfeːlɛchaːzɒ]; German: Feulegaß) is a city in Bács-Kiskun County, Hungary.

Geography

Kiskunfélegyháza 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

Félegyháza means "half church" in Hungarian, while prefix Kiskun refers to the region Kiskunság ("Little Cumania").

History

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]

Famous people

Twin towns

Kiskunfélegyháza is twinned with:

References

  1. Magyarország autóatlasz, Dimap-Szarvas, Budapest, 2004, ISBN 963-03-7576-1
  2. 1 2 Chisholm 1911, p. 836.
  3. 1 2 3 4 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
  4. 1 2 3 4 Antal Papp: Magyarország (Hungary), Panoráma, Budapest, 1982, ISBN 963 243 241 X, p. 860, pp. 405-407
  5. 1 2 "Hungary, Kiskunfelegyhaza". Retrieved 20 June 2013.
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