Ferencszállás is a

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in the

Szeged District Szeged (; ; ) is a district in southern part of Csongrád County. ''Szeged'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Southern Great Plain Statistical Region. Geography Szeged District borde ...

Csongrád Csongrád (; , archaically also ''Црноград/Crnograd,'' ) is a town in Csongrád County in southern Hungary. History At the time of the Hungarian Conquest (the end of 9th century) the Maros Valley was under Bulgarian control. The fortre ...

county, in the

Southern Great Plain The Southern Great Plain ( ) is a statistical ( NUTS 2) region of Hungary. It is part of Great Plain and North (NUTS 1) region. The Southern Great Plain includes the counties of Bács-Kiskun, Békés, and Csongrád-Csanád. The region is in the ...

region of southern

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Geography

It covers an area of and has a population of 605 people (2015). The village is accessible via Hungary's Highway 43. The town lies along the river

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, 10.5 kilometers west of

Makó Makó (, , Makowe, or , ) is a town in Csongrád County, in southeastern Hungary, from the Romanian border. It lies on the Maros River. Makó is home to 21,913 people and it has an area of , of which is arable land. Makó is the fourth-larges ...

History

The village of Ferencszállás was founded in 1828 by the Hungarian

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Gerliczy Ferenc, from whom its name derives. Ferencszállás is located on a plain once known as "''Kukutyin puszta"'', which was the site of tobacco drying barns between 1810 and 1814.

References

Populated places in Csongrád-Csanád County {{Csongrad-geo-stub