Borota is a

village A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...

and

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

('' Hungarian:

község Administratively, Hungary is divided into 19 counties (''megye'', plural ''megyék''). In addition, the capital (''főváros''), Budapest, is independent of any county government. The counties and the capital are the 20 NUTS third-level units of H ...

'') in Bács-Kiskun county, located in the

Southern Great Plain The Southern Great Plain ( hu, Dél-Alföld) is a statistical ( NUTS 2) region of Hungary. It is part of Great Plain and North (NUTS 1) region. The Southern Great Plain includes three counties: * Bács-Kiskun * Békés * Csongrád-Csanád See ...

region of

Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia a ...

Geography

It covers an area of and had a population of 1,309 people as of 2018.

History

Borota was mentioned in 1325 as ''Boroth'' and it was property of the

archbishop of Kalocsa In Christian denominations, an archbishop is a bishop of higher rank or office. In most cases, such as the Catholic Church, there are many archbishops who either have jurisdiction over an ecclesiastical province in addition to their own archdioc ...

. Since the village had been devastated by the

Mongol invasion The Mongol invasions and conquests took place during the 13th and 14th centuries, creating history's largest contiguous empire: the Mongol Empire (1206- 1368), which by 1300 covered large parts of Eurasia. Historians regard the Mongol devastati ...

of 1241–42, the archbishop sold the village to Imre Becsey who brought new settlers to Borota. In the 16th century Borota fell under Ottoman occupation and was mentioned several times in Turkish records. In 1658

Palatine A palatine or palatinus (in Latin; plural ''palatini''; cf. derivative spellings below) is a high-level official attached to imperial or royal courts in Europe since Roman times.

Ferenc Wesselényi Count Ferenc Wesselényi de Hadad et Murány (1605 – Zólyomlipcse (Slovenská Ľupča), 23 March 1667) was a Hungarian military commander and the palatine of the Royal Hungary. Life He was the son of István Wesselényi, royal court counselo ...

donated the village to Baron Pál Serényi. In 1740 Borota was in the hands of the Princes Grassalkovich. However, they divided the estate into plots and sold it to the Cseszneky family. Since 1750 Borota belonged to

Rém Rém () is a village and municipality ('' Hungarian: község'') in Bács-Kiskun county, Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordere ...

village, but its southern part known as Szentkáta remained the property of the Counts Cseszneky de Milvány until the 20th century. In the second half of the 19th century Borota was an independent village for a short while, then administered again by Rém. In 1911 eventually regained its administrative independence.

Demographics

In the 2011 census, the municipality had a population of 1,443 individuals, with 82.7% of the population reporting to be Hungarian, 1.2% German, 0.4% Roma, 0.4% Romanian and 17.2% declining to answer. The majority of the population were adherents of Roman Catholicism (62%), with 28.7% declining to answer and 6.4% following no religion.

References

Populated places in Bács-Kiskun County {{Bacs-geo-stub