Tázlár 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 ...

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 ...

in Bács-Kiskun county, 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 In geography, regions, otherwise referred to as zones, lands or territories, are areas that are broadly divided by physical characteristics ( physical geography), human impact characteristics ( human geography), and the interaction of humanity an ...

of southern

Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning 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 ...

. It is about 10 km away from its closest neighbor,

Soltvadkert Soltvadkert (german: Wadkert; hr, Vakier; yi, וואדקערט) is a town in Bács-Kiskun county in Hungary with approximately 8,000 inhabitants. The former name of the town is ''Vadkert''. It is surrounded by several areas of the Kiskunság Na ...

Geography

History

Tázlár's name was changed to ''Prónayfalva'' in 1907, but since 1947 it's called Tázlár again. The village was studied in the 1970s by anthropologist

Chris Hann Chris Hann (born 4 August 1953) is a British social anthropologist who has done field research in socialist and post-socialist Eastern Europe (especially in Hungary and Poland) and the Turkic-speaking world (Black Sea coast and Xinjiang, N-W Ch ...

, resulting in a book "Tázlár: A village in Hungary".Hann, Chris 1980. Tázlár: a village in Hungary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press He has returned there in 2000s studying the further development
The New Property System in Tázlár

Demographics

Ethnicity

As of the census of 2001 there were 2,014 people living in Tázlár. The ethnical background of the town was 95.1% Hungarian, 0.7%

Gypsy The Romani (also spelled Romany or Rromani , ), colloquially known as the Roma, are an Indo-Aryan ethnic group, traditionally nomadic itinerants. They live in Europe and Anatolia, and have diaspora populations located worldwide, with sign ...

, 0.2% Slovak, 4.5% other.

Religion

The religious affiliations of the people of Tázlár are: *

Roman Catholic Roman or Romans most often refers to: *Rome, the capital city of Italy * Ancient Rome, Roman civilization from 8th century BC to 5th century AD * Roman people, the people of ancient Rome *'' Epistle to the Romans'', shortened to ''Romans'', a let ...

- 65.9% *

Presbyterian Presbyterianism is a part of the Reformed tradition within Protestantism that broke from the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland by John Knox, who was a priest at St. Giles Cathedral (Church of Scotland). Presbyterian churches derive their nam ...

- 16.1% *

Lutheran Lutheranism is one of the largest branches of Protestantism, identifying primarily with the theology of Martin Luther, the 16th-century German monk and Protestant Reformers, reformer whose efforts to reform the theology and practice of the Cathol ...

- 6.5% * Other Christian - 0.9% * Non-Religious - 10.5% Populated places in Bács-Kiskun County {{Bacs-geo-stub