Vatta is a village in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén}}, 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...

. It lies in the south of the county, 30 kilometre from Miskolc

Miskolc

Miskolc is a city in northeastern Hungary, mainly with heavy industrial background. With a population close to 170,000 Miskolc is the fourth largest city of Hungary It is also the county capital of Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén and the regional centre of Northern Hungary.- Geography :Miskolc is located...

 and 19 km (12 mi) from Mezőkövesd

Mezokövesd

Mezőkövesd is a town in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county, Northern Hungary. It lies from Miskolc and from Eger.-History:The area has been inhabited since the Great Migration. It's likely that the first Hungarian settlement was formed here shortly after the conquest of Hungary, but in 1275 in a church...

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Etymology

According to local tradition, the name of Vatta from the name of an 11th-century pagan tribal chief

Tribal chief

A tribal chief is the leader of a tribal society or chiefdom. Tribal societies with social stratification under a single leader emerged in the Neolithic period out of earlier tribal structures with little stratification, and they remained prevalent throughout the Iron Age.In the case of ...

 called "Vata".

History

The first known record of the village is in a charter of 1323. In the following centuries it was known as Vatha, Woytha, Watha, and Bata. From 1475 the settlement was recorded as ("Lower Vatta") and ("Upper Vatta"), which indicates that there were two distinct and separate settlements. These combined later.

During the Ottoman

Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman EmpireIt was usually referred to as the "Ottoman Empire", the "Turkish Empire", the "Ottoman Caliphate" or more commonly "Turkey" by its contemporaries...

 rule of the 16th Century, the village was razed and the inhabitants had to flee several times.

In 1895 Vatta became a town, and from 1950 an independent village. After Communist rule, in 1990 the village got its own parish council.

Landmarks

• Odescalch Castle, built in the 18th Century.
• Roman Catholic
  Roman Catholicism in Hungary
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   church, built in the 18th Century in the Baroque
  Baroque architecture
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   style, dedicated
  Dedication
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   to Saint Mary the Virgin
  Mary (mother of Jesus)
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• Reform Church.
• Monument of Heros, by János Pásztor
  János Pásztor
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  , erected in 1926.

Famous people

• Bertalan Szemere, the second Prime Minister of Hungary, was born in Vatta on 27 August 1812.

External links

• Street map