Kunfehértó is a village

Village

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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

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 of Hungary

Hungary

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. Due to its small size, there is only one main road to enter the village. By following this about 2km through the village, one will arrive in the other end where several new homes have been built the last years. A few hundred meters further one will come to an area of summer holiday cottages. Here one will also find a small lake

Lake

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, which in Hungarian

Hungarian language

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 is called tó.

Many people in the village makes a living of farming, hand craft or other entrepreneurial businesses, while knowledge intensive occupations such as doctors and lawyers are more typical in the bigger villages or cities.

Croats

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 in Hungary call this village Fertov and Vertov .

History

It was not before 1948 that the idea of building the village came up. Before this there was only an elementary school and the train station for the people living in the area. The location where the village is situated today was basically made up of puszta

Puszta

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 and grazing fields. In 1950 the area was measured into land lot(s), and it was on these parcels of land that the village was built. In 1951 the name Bácsfehértó was given to the village, but this was changed to Kunfehértó in 1952, the same year as electricity was integrated in the village. In the first period, between 1950 and 1953, around 180-190 homes were built. In the following years public buildings such as the town hall, kinder garden and post office were built.

The area around the lake with all the summer cottages was until recently a popular summer holiday destination for many German

Germans

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, Dutch

Dutch people

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 and Austrian tourists, but the last ten years, after the increasing popularity of lake Balaton

Balaton

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 and other bigger places in Hungary, these visitors are almost absent today. Still, the yearly beer festival with its concerts, parties and entertainment attracts a great amount of visitors from all over the county and Hungary. Also, every summer many children spends a week or two in summer camps or at the sports facilities near the lake.

Geography

It covers an area

Area

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 of 78.37 km² (30 sq mi) and has a population

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 of 2307 people (2005). The village is located between the two cities Kiskunhalas

Kiskunhalas

- Railroad :The city is an important railway junction. It crosses the Budapest-Subotica-Belgrade railway line. The Kiskunfélegyháza railway ends in Kiskunhalas.- Name :...

 and Jánoshalma

Jánoshalma

Jánoshalma is a town in Bács-Kiskun county in southern Hungary....

, about 50km from the Serbian boarder.