Bátya (Croatian: ''Baćin'' or ''Baćino'') is a village in
Bács-Kiskun county,
Hungary
Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning much 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 south, Croatia and ...
.
Tourism
Cultural sights
*Church
*World War II monument
*Holy Trinity
*Calvaria
Other structures
Southwest of Bátya, there is the tallest electricity pylon of Hungary ( height: 138 metres). It is part of Danube crossing from the 400 kV-line Paks - Sandorfalva.
Notable people
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Teri Harangozó
Teri Harangozó (born Terézia Mária Rózsa Harangozó 8 August 1943 – 8 September 2015) was a Hungarian singer. She was one of the most influential female artists in Hungary in her time, whose independent album would influence many Hungarian ...
(1943 - 2015), singer
Demographics
Existing ethnicities:
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Magyars
Hungarians, also known as Magyars, are an ethnic group native to Hungary (), who share a common culture, language and history. They also have a notable presence in former parts of the Kingdom of Hungary. The Hungarian language belongs to the ...
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Croats
The Croats (; , ) are a South Slavs, South Slavic ethnic group native to Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and other neighboring countries in Central Europe, Central and Southeastern Europe who share a common Croatian Cultural heritage, ancest ...
Croats from Bátya came to that area in 16th century from Croatian northeastern region of
Slavonia
Slavonia (; ) is, with Dalmatia, Croatia proper, and Istria County, Istria, one of the four Regions of Croatia, historical regions of Croatia. Located in the Pannonian Plain and taking up the east of the country, it roughly corresponds with f ...
. They speak the Štokavian dialect of Croatian, a Slavonian subdialect (Old-Shtokavian with non-reflected yat pronunciation). Similar dialectal features are seen today among population of
Gradište near
Županja
Županja (, , ) is a town in eastern Slavonia, Croatia, located 254 km east of Zagreb. It is administratively part of the Vukovar-Syrmia County. It is inhabited by 12,090 people (2011).
Županja lies on the Sava river opposite Bosnia and He ...
and around
Našice
Našice (; , sr-Cyrl, Нашице, , ) is a town in eastern Croatia, located on the northern slopes of the Krndija mountain in eastern Slavonia, 51 km southwest of regional hub Osijek. Administratively it belongs to Osijek-Baranja County.
...
.
These Croats belong to special group of Danubian Croats: they call themselves as
Raci. In literature they are also called ''racki Hrvati''.
Bátya Croats' feast is ''Veliko racko prelo''.
Croatica.hu
Prela, balovi i pokladne zabave u Bačkoj 2008.
Nearby villages
*Kalocsa
Kalocsa (; or ''Kalača''; or Калоча; ) is a town in Bács-Kiskun county, Hungary. It lies south of Budapest. It is situated in a marshy but highly productive district, near the left bank of the Danube River. Historically it had greater ...
*Fajsz
Fajsz (), also Falicsi (), was Grand Prince of the Hungarians from about 950 to around 955. All information on him comes from ''De administrando imperio'', a book written by the Byzantine Emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus. No other conte ...
*Foktő
Foktő () is a village in Bács-Kiskun county, in the Southern Great Plain region of Hungary.
Geography
It covers an area
Area is the measure of a region's size on a surface. The area of a plane region or ''plane area'' refers to th ...
* Miske
* Dusnok
References
External links
Official website
batya6351.atw.hu
Vendegvaro
Populated places in Bács-Kiskun County
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