Perkáta
Perkáta is a village in Fejér County, Hungary. Straddling the old Buda–Pécs postal road on the Mezőföld loess plain, Perkáta lies west of the Danube at Dunaújváros and south-east of Székesfehérvár. The cadastral area covers , most of it large-block arable rotated between wheat, sunflower and maize; poplar shelter-belts planted after the 1956 “great wind-storm” still parcel out the fields. Modern census returns count 3,844 permanent residents in 2022, a slow rebound after the post-socialist low of 3,611 in 2011. History First mentioned in a 1162 charter as Percata, the settlement passed through royal, episcopal and noble hands before the Ottoman wars in Europe, Ottoman wars left it deserted. Resettlement began in 1696 when Ferenc Nádasdy invited Catholic Hungarian and Slovak peasants to cultivate the "praedium Perkatha". By 1840 the village had grown to 2,100 people and sported a single-nave Church of St Stephen (consecrated 1763, Classicist façade rebuilt ...
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