Apostag

Apostag

Coat of arms
Country  Hungary
County Bács-Kiskun
Area
 • Total 31.94 km2 (12.33 sq mi)
Population (2015)
 • Total 2,010
 • Density 63/km2 (160/sq mi)
Time zone UTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST) UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code 6088
Area code(s) 78
Location of Bács-Kiskun county in Hungary

Apostag is a village and municipality in Bács-Kiskun county, in the Southern Great Plain region of southern Hungary.

Croats in Hungary call this village Štagara.[1]

Geography

It covers an area of 31.94 km2 (12 sq mi) and has a population of 2010 people (2015).

History

In the medieval ages the village had a rotunda with 12 sided poligonal shape and its patrocinium was: The 12 Apostles. There was also similar patricinium of Bény rotunda, recently in Bíňa, Slovakia.

References

  • Gervers-Molnár Vera: A középkori Magyarország rotundái. (Romanesque Round Churches of Medieval Hungary.) (Mûvészettörténeti Füzetek, 4.) Akadémiai Kiadó. Budapest, 1972.

Notes

  1. ↑ (in Croatian) "Folia onomastica croatica 14/2005".  (462 KB) Živko Mandić: Hrvatska imena naseljenih mjesta u Madžarskoj,
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