Balatonkeresztúr is a village in Somogy county,

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. The settlement is part of the

Balatonboglár wine region The Balatonboglár wine region, also known as the South Balaton wine region, is the only one wine region in Somogy County, Hungary. The area consists of 37 settlements, mainly located on the southern shore of Lake Balaton, but also some near Kap ...

Etymology

According to the local tradition, the village's name comes from the crossing of roads (). However, the more well-accepted theory states that, like many other villages in

Somogy County Somogy (, ; ; , ) is an administrative county (Counties of Hungary, comitatus or ''vármegye'') in present Hungary, and also in the former Kingdom of Hungary. Somogy County lies in south-western Hungary, on the border with Croatia's Koprivnica- ...

, Balatonkeresztúr was named after the patron of its church, in this case, ''Szent Kereszt'' ().

History

According to ''László Szita,'' the settlement was completely Hungarian in the 18th century.László Szita : Somogy megyei nemzetiségek településtörténete a XVIII-XIX. században - Somogyi Almanach 52. (Kaposvár, 1993)
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Culture

The Hungarian folk song Szép a huszár, ha felül a lovára was collected in 1923 in Balatonkeresztúr by

Lajos Bárdos Lajos Bárdos (1 October 1899 – 18 November 1986) was a composer, conductor, music theorist, and professor of music at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, in Budapest, Hungary, where he had previously studied under Albert Siklós and Zoltán Ko ...

External links

Street map (Hungarian)

References

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