Hercegszántó
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Hercegszántó (, ) is a village in Bács-Kiskun County in Hungary, famous for being the birthplace of footballer Flórián Albert. Residents are Magyars, with minority of Serbs and Croats. Until the end of World War II, the Danube Swabians lived in this village, it was the only village of Stifulder, in the Bács-Kiskun county. The Stifulder are a Roman Catholic subgroup of the Danube Swabians whose ancestors arrived in the 17th and 18th centuries from the Fulda District. Majority of the Danube Swabians was expelled to Allied-occupied Germany and Allied-occupied Austria in 1945–1948, as a result of
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- Hungarian-Croatian-Serbian city limit sign
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- Country
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- Hungary Bács-Kiskun#Hungary#Europe
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- 1
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- top
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- Location of Hercegszántó
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- 300
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- CET
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- +1
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- +2
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- Hercegszántó
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- County
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- Bács-Kiskun
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- Bács-Kiskun
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- border city
- Official name
- Hercegszántó
- Country
- Hungary
- Located in
- Baja District
- Population
- 1628
- Area
- 68.55
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Official website
- hercegszanto.hu
- Image
- Hervegszántó, római katolikus templom 2023 02.jpg
- Dialing code
- 79
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- Commons category
- Hercegszántó
- postal code
- 6525
- native label
- Hercegszántó
- P8168
- Maciej Słomczyński
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Hercegszántó (, ) is a village in Bács-Kiskun County in Hungary, famous for being the birthplace of footballer Flórián Albert. Residents are Magyars, with minority of Serbs and Croats. Until the end of World War II, the Danube Swabians lived in this village, it was the only village of Stifulder, in the Bács-Kiskun county. The Stifulder are a Roman Catholic subgroup of the Danube Swabians whose ancestors arrived in the 17th and 18th centuries from the Fulda District. Majority of the Danube Swabians was expelled to Allied-occupied Germany and Allied-occupied Austria in 1945–1948, as a result of the Potsdam Agreement.
A border crossing into Serbia is located near Hercegszántó. The Serbian town of Bački Breg lies across the border. It is also only a few kilometres away from Croatia.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hercegszántó” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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