Dusnok is a village

Village

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 in Bács-Kiskun

Bács-Kiskun

Bács-Kiskun is a county located in southern Hungary. It was created as a result of World War II, merging the pre war Bács-Bodrog and the southern parts of Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun counties. With an area of 8,445 km2, Bács-Kiskun is the largest county in the country. The terrain is mostly flat...

 county, in the Southern Great Plain

Southern Great Plain

Southern Great Plain is a statistical region of Hungary. It is part of Great Plain and North region. Southern Great Plain includes the 3 counties:* Bács-Kiskun* Békés* Csongrád...

 region

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 of southern Hungary

Hungary

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.

Geography

It covers an area

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 of 57.47 km² (22 sq mi) and has a population

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 of 3396 people (2005).

Demography

Population is consisted of Magyars, Croats

Croats

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, Germans

Germans

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 and Roma.

Croats from Dusnok came to that area in 16th century from Slavonia. They speak Štokavian dialect of Croatian language, a Slavonian subdialect (Old-Shtokavian with non-reflected yat pronunciation). Similar dialectal features are seen today among population of Gradište near Županja

Županja

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 (in western Syrmia) and around town of Našice

Našice

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 in central eastern Slavonia (both in northeastern Croatia).

These Croats belong to special group of Danubian Croats: they call themselves as Raci. In literature they are also called racki Hrvati.

Dusnok Croats' feasts are Veliko racko prelo ., Racki Duhovi or Racke Pinkusde (since 1993. ), Ivanjdan, August 20th and Berbena svečanost (Harvest celebration).

History

Its name was mentioned first in a document issued between 1193-1196 by King Béla III. Dusnok was devastated by the Ottoman

Ottoman Empire

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 invasion in 16th century. In 1639 as an abandoned place was the property of János Miskey and István Veres. At the end of 17th century Catholic

Catholic

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 settlers from Dalmatia

Dalmatia

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 and Bosnia arrived. In early 18th century Dusnok was reclaimed by the Counts Cseszneky

House of Cseszneky

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, however eventually it became the property of the archbishop of Kalocsa. In 1864 the village suffered from a huge blaze.