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Helvécia

Helvécia is a village in Bács-Kiskun county, in the Southern Great Plain region of southern Hungary.

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Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox settlement >.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox settlement >.image_flag: File:Flag of Helvécia.svg
Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox settlement >.image_shield: File:Coa Hungary Town Helvécia.svg
Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox settlement >.pushpin_map: Hungary Bács-Kiskun#Hungary#Europe
Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox settlement >.pushpin_relief: 1
Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox settlement >.pushpin_map_caption: Location of Helvécia
Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox settlement >.timezone: CET
Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox settlement >.utc_offset: +1
Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox settlement >.timezone_DST: CEST
Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox settlement >.utc_offset_DST: +2
Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox settlement >.official_name: Helvécia
Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox settlement >.subdivision_type1: County
Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox settlement >.subdivision_name1: Bács-Kiskun
Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox settlement >.subdivision_type2: District
Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox settlement >.subdivision_name2: Kecskemét
Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox settlement >.area_total_km2: 56.47
Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox settlement >.population_as_of: 2015
Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox settlement >.population_total: 4522

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Twin towns – sister cities
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Helvécia is a village in Bács-Kiskun county, in the Southern Great Plain region of southern Hungary.

==History== Helvécia was founded in 1892 by Swiss-born teacher . After the great phylloxera epidemic that had destroyed much of the historical vineyard plantings in the 1870s, sandy soils of the Great Plains became much more valuable for grape cultivation than before. Helvécia was settled by 501 vineyard workers, most of them from the Balaton wine country. It gained independence of nearby Kecskemét in 1952.