Kunfehértó is a

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in Bács-Kiskun county, in the

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. In near the village there is a holiday village. Due to its small size, there is only one main road to enter the village. By following this about 2 km through the village, one will arrive at the other end where several new homes have been built the last years. A few hundred metres further one will come to an area of summer holiday cottages. Here one will also find a small

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, which in Hungarian is called tó. Many people in the village makes a living from farming, hand craft or other entrepreneurial businesses, while knowledge intensive occupations such as doctors and lawyers are more typical in the bigger villages or cities.

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in Hungary call this village ''Fertov'' and ''Vertov''. Živko Mandić: Hrvatska imena naseljenih mjesta u Madžarskoj,

History

It was not before 1948 that the idea of building the village came up. Before this there was only an elementary school and the train station for the people living in the area. The location where the village is situated today was basically made up of

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and grazing fields. In 1950 the area was measured into

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(s), and it was on these parcels of land that the village was built. In 1951 the name Bácsfehértó was given to the village, but this was changed to Kunfehértó in 1952, the same year as electricity was integrated in the village. In the first period, between 1950 and 1953, around 180-190 homes were built. In the following years public buildings such as the town hall, kinder garden and post office were built. The area around the lake with all the summer cottages was until recently a popular summer holiday destination for many

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and

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tourists, but the last ten years, after the increasing popularity of

Lake Balaton Lake Balaton () is a freshwater rift lake in the Transdanubian region of Hungary. It is the List of largest lakes of Europe, largest lake in Central Europe, and one of the region's foremost tourist destinations. The Zala River provides the larges ...

and other bigger places in Hungary, these visitors are almost absent today. Still, the yearly beer festival with its concerts, parties and entertainment attracts a great number of visitors from all over the county and Hungary. Also, every summer many children spends a week or two in summer camps or at the sports facilities near the lake.

Geography

It covers an

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of and has a

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of 2307 people (2005). The village is located between the two cities

Kiskunhalas Kiskunhalas (; ) is a city in the county of Bács-Kiskun, Hungary. Railroad The city is an important railway junction. It crosses the Budapest-Subotica-Belgrade railway line. The Kiskunfélegyháza railway ends in Kiskunhalas. Geography Kisk ...

and

Jánoshalma Jánoshalma () is a town in Bács-Kiskun county in southern 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 northe ...

, about 50 km from the Serbian border.

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kunfeherto Populated places in Bács-Kiskun County