Kövegy is a

village A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...

Csongrád county Csongrád (; , archaically also ''Црноград/Crnograd,'' ) is a town in Csongrád County in southern Hungary. History At the time of the Hungarian Conquest (the end of 9th century) the Maros Valley was under Bulgarian control. The fortre ...

, in the

Southern Great Plain The Southern Great Plain ( ) is a statistical ( NUTS 2) region of Hungary. It is part of Great Plain and North (NUTS 1) region. The Southern Great Plain includes the counties of Bács-Kiskun, Békés, and Csongrád-Csanád. The region is in the ...

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of 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 northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia and ...

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 the area of a shape or planar lamina, while '' surface area'' refers to the area of an open surface or the boundary of a three-di ...

of and has a

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of 362 people (2015).

History

In 1764 it was still mentioned as a wasteland, in 1843 more than 120 families of Catholic tobacco growers from the surrounding settlements settled here. It belonged to

Csanádpalota Csanádpalota (in ) is a town in the Makó-region of Csongrád county, in Hungary's Southern Great Plain. Geography Csanádpalota covers an area of and has a population of 3286 people (2002). It is located close to the Romanian state border about ...

until 1882, then it became an independent settlement. From 1973 to 1990, it was a village with a joint council with Csanádpalota. It has been an independent settlement since 1990.

References

Populated places in Csongrád-Csanád County {{Csongrad-geo-stub