Apostag

Infobox Settlement
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subdivision_type = Country
subdivision_name = HUN
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subdivision_type1=County
subdivision_name1=Bács-Kiskun
area_total_km2=31.94
population_as_of=2001
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population_density_km2=65.9
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[
thumb|right|300px|Location_of_Bács-Kiskuncounty in Hungary] Apostag is a village and municipality in Bács-Kiskun county, in the Southern Great Plain region of southern Hungary.

Croats in Hungary call this village "Štagara" [hr icon [http://hrcak.srce.hr/file/11541 Folia onomastica croatica 14/2005.] Živko Mandić: Hrvatska imena naseljenih mjesta u Madžarskoj, pdf] .

Geography

It covers an area of convert|31.94|km2|sqmi|0|abbr=on and has a population of 2105 people (2001).

History

In the medieval ages the village had a rotunda with 12 sided poligonal shape and its patrocinium was: The 12 Apostles. There was also similar patricinium of Bény rotunda, recently in Slovakia as Bina.

Gallery

References

* Gervers-Molnár Vera: A középkori Magyarország rotundái. (Romanesque Round Churches of Medieval Hungary.) (Mûvészettörténeti Füzetek, 4.) Akadémiai Kiadó. Budapest, 1972.

External links

*hu icon [http://apostag.hu Apostag Község hivatalos honlapja]
*hu icon [http://www.vendegvaro.hu/5-88 Apostag a Vendégvárón]
*hu icon [http://apostag.lap.hu/ Apostag.lap.hu]
*hu icon [http://www.civertan.hu/legifoto/legifoto.php?page_level=27 Légifotók Apostagról]