Akasztó is a village

Village

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 and municipality

Municipality

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 in Bács-Kiskun

Bács-Kiskun

Bács-Kiskun is a county located in southern Hungary. It was created as a result of World War II, merging the pre war Bács-Bodrog and the southern parts of Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun counties. With an area of 8,445 km2, Bács-Kiskun is the largest county in the country. The terrain is mostly flat...

 county, in the Southern Great Plain

Southern Great Plain

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 region

Region

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 of southern Hungary

Hungary

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. It is surrounded by several areas of the Kiskunság National Park

Kiskunság National Park

The Kiskunság National Park is a national park located mainly in Bács-Kiskun county, Hungary. It was created in 1975 and declared a biosphere reserve by the UNESCO...

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Geography

Akasztó covering an area of 64.88 km² lies in the northern edge of the Little Cumania

Little Cumania

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 region. Its closest neighbor is Csengőd

Csengod

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, about 6 km away.

History

According to local tales

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, the name of the town comes from the Hungarian

Hungarian language

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 word akasztani which means to hang in English. The area was known for its muddy roads that hanged the wheels

Wheel

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 of a coach

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. Others says the town was named Akasztó because of its often exercised right to hang

Hanging

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 people.

Akasztó was first mentioned in 1278 as Akazthow. It was the center of royal tax-collectors. During the Ottoman Conquest

Ottoman wars in Europe

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 it lost much of its population. In the early 18th century Slovak

Slovaks

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 farmers settled in the region. In 1737 the village was the property of the Bosnyák family and in 1770 of the Batthyány family

Batthyány

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. Before World War II

World War II

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, the local winery and mill industry belonged to Count Mihály Cseszneky de Milvány, but his fortune was nationalised in the Communist-ruled People's Republic of Hungary

People's Republic of Hungary

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