Gara is a village in
Bács-Kiskun county, near
Baja, in
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 ...
.
History
The village is first mentioned in a 1290 document. The name is derived from the ''Garai'' family name. The most commonly accepted theory claims that the word ''Gara'' originates from a
Slavic word meaning ''hill.'' (The original village was situated on a small hill, at a distance of 4 kilometers from its current location.)
According to Turkish tax listings, the village had 25 houses under
Ottoman rule. The original village was destroyed. After the
Kingdom of Hungary
The Kingdom of Hungary was a monarchy in Central Europe that existed for nearly a millennium, from the Middle Ages into the 20th century. The Principality of Hungary emerged as a Christian kingdom upon the coronation of the first king Stephen ...
regained its lost territories, Gara was rebuilt. In 1731, the village's population reached 277. In 1734,
Germans
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settled the place. The first school there was opened in 1755 (by János Bary). In 1895, Gara was connected to the national
railroad
Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a pre ...
system. This line was closed in 1971 as traffic declined (the
Treaty of Trianon
The Treaty of Trianon (french: Traité de Trianon, hu, Trianoni békeszerződés, it, Trattato del Trianon) was prepared at the Paris Peace Conference (1919–1920), Paris Peace Conference and was signed in the Grand Trianon château in ...
had made this line unnecessary, and after fifty years, the train company decided to end service to Gara).
Demographics
Existing ethnicities:
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Magyars
Hungarians, also known as Magyars ( ; hu, magyarok ), are a nation and ethnic group native to Hungary () and historical Hungarian lands who share a common culture, history, ancestry, and language. The Hungarian language belongs to the Uralic ...
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Croats
The Croats (; hr, Hrvati ) are a South Slavic ethnic group who share a common Croatian ancestry, culture, history and language. They are also a recognized minority in a number of neighboring countries, namely Austria, the Czech Republic, G ...
(from
Bunjevci
Bunjevci ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Bunjevci, Буњевци, ; sh-Latn-Cyrl, label=, separator=" / ", Bunjevac, Буњевац, sh-Latn-Cyrl, label=, separator=" / ", Bunjevka, Буњевка) are a South Slavic sub-ethnic group living ...
group)
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Germans
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, region1 =
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, pop2 = 534,000
, region3 =
, pop3 = 157,000
3,322,405
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Notable persons from Gara
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Antun Karagić, Croatian writer
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Kricskovics Antal, Dancer, Choreographer
External links
A site about the village
Populated places in Bács-Kiskun County
Places in Bačka
Hungarian German communities
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