Dóc is a
village
A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...
in
Csongrád county, in the
Southern Great Plain region
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of southern
Hungary
Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning much of the Pannonian Basin, 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 and ...
.
Geography
It covers an
area
Area is the measure of a region's size on a surface. The area of a plane region or ''plane area'' refers to the area of a shape or planar lamina, while '' surface area'' refers to the area of an open surface or the boundary of a three-di ...
of and has a
population
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of 707 people (2015).
History
From the 1400s the landholder in the area was Dóczy Miklós. in 1803, ownership of the land passed into the hands of the
Pallavicini family. Dóc was formed into an independent settlement in 1952.
Historically, the area around Dóc engaged in
tobacco farming, but today other forms of farming, gardening, and animal husbandry are common.
References
Populated places in Csongrád-Csanád County
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