Vaskút is a large 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

Region

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 of southern Hungary

Hungary

Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...

.

Geography

It covers an area

Area

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 of 71.49 km². It has a population of 3654 people (2002).

Demographics

Magyars Croats

Croats

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Before 1945, there was high share of Germans

Germans

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 (Danube Swabians

Danube Swabians

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) in Vaskút's population, that spoke their own dialect of German language.

After the war, numerous Magyars (Szeklers from Bukovina

Bukovina

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 and Csángó

Csángó

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s from Moldavia

Moldavia

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) were settled here.

Notable persons

• Stefan Schoblocher (1937), writer
• Fabijan Peštalić (1845–1909), Franciscan, important personality of national movement
  Illyrian movement
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   of the Danubian Croats
• Grgur Peštalić (1755–1809), Franciscan, Croatian writer