Taszár is a village in Somogy county,

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 ...

. The

Taszár Air Base Taszár Air Base is a military air base located near Taszár, Somogy County, Hungary. It is east of Kaposvár. It became the primary staging post for peacekeeping forces coming and going into the Balkans in December of 1995 becoming NATO's fir ...

is located here.

Etymology

The name comes from Slavic ''tesar'' (a carpenter), see e.g. Tesáre or Tesáre nad Žitavou. Tazar (1358).

History and infrastructure

The village structure of the traditional Hungarian village was radically changed in the 1950s when they built the military air base. The military objects occupy a significant part of the town. This is particularly the inclusion of the airport and the barracks. The houses in the village were built at the airport and the barracks of soldiers were 2-3 storey, mostly flat-roofed buildings. In 1995 the village were target of international and domestic interest. The

became the logistical base of

IFOR The Implementation Force (IFOR) was a NATO-led multinational peace enforcement force in Bosnia and Herzegovina under a one-year mandate from 20 December 1995 to 20 December 1996 under the codename ''Operation Joint Endeavour''. Background NATO ...

and later

SFOR The Stabilisation Force in Bosnia and Herzegovina (SFOR) was a NATO-led multinational peacekeeping force deployed to Bosnia and Herzegovina after the Bosnian war. Although SFOR was led by NATO, several non-NATO countries contributed troops. It ...

troops. In 2003 the

took part in the training of the Iraqi volunteers. Taszár has sealed roads and pavements. 300 children are studying in the primary school which has a modern language laboratory and a computer room to help students and the work of the teachers. The village's medical center has modern medical and dental equipment. There's a closed-loop 18-channel cable TV system in the village. 98% of the village's houses is able to watch the local information broadcast. Since 2002 the village has information office, whose services cover the field of the village's agricultural and industrial entrepreneurs. There are ability for both the youth and the older people to gain access to the Internet in purpose of getting information online.

External links

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Street map (Hungarian)

References

Populated places in Somogy County {{Somogy-geo-stub