Kisszállás

Infobox Settlement
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area_total_km2=92.06
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Kisszállás is a village and municipality in Bács-Kiskun county, in the Southern Great Plain region of southern Hungary.

Croats in Hungary call this village "Salašica" [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|92.06|km2|sqmi|0|abbr=on and has a population of 2878 people (2005).
* [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=hu&geocode=&q=kissz%C3%A1ll%C3%A1s&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=35.136115,76.992187&ie=UTF8&ll=46.27958,19.49039&spn=0.014979,0.037594&t=h&z=15 Kisszállás in Google Maps]
* [http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kissz%C3%A1ll%C3%A1s More info in Hungarian Wiki]

Interesting Facts

The area has long been settlement for different nations. Avars, Kuns and even Turkish people have lived there for centuries and left their footsteps there. A Turkish and an Avar cemetery have been discovered in Kisszállás proving this.

The Hungarian village was founded by the unification of 7 other small villages in the middle of the XIX. century. Since then, its citizens have made there living by using the great topsoil for agral purposes.

The name of the settlement: 'Kisszállás' in Hungarian is a compound word. The first part of the name (Kis-) means small, and the second part (-szállás) is a common Hungarian settlement ending like '-ville' in American. So, technically Kisszállás is the Hungarian Smallville.

ource

* [http://kisszallas.halasregio.hu/ Kisszállás information portal (Halasregio.hu)]
* [http://www.bacsportal.hu/telepulesek/kisszallas.html Kisszállás in Bács-Kiskun area portal (bacsportal.hu)]
* [http://www.terkepcentrum.hu/index.asp?go=map&mid=3&tid=28158 Kisszállás map (Terkepcentrum.hu)]
* [http://www.nemzetijelkepek.hu/onkormanyzat-kisszallas.shtml Hungarian National and History Symbols]