Sükösd 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

Region

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 of southern Hungary

Hungary

Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...

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History

The village was named after the Christian saint, St. Sixtus. In 1521 it was mentioned as Sykesd. Originally the village was situated much closer to the Danube

Danube

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, but due to the frequent floods, in the early 19th century, the archbishop of Kalocsa

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kalocsa-Kecskemét

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kalocsa–Kecskemét is an Archdiocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in Hungary. Since 1993, its official name is Archdiocese of Kalocsa-Kecskemét. The diocese is the metropolitan of the Diocese of Pécs and the Diocese of Szeged-Csanád. The patron...

 resettled its inhabitants on a nearby hill. The new Roman Catholic church was built in 1821. Sükösd had been for centuries the property of the archbishops of Kalocsa, however in the 20th century, Count Mihály Cseszneky de Milvány bought the estate, but his fortune was nationalised in the Communist-ruled People's Republic of Hungary

People's Republic of Hungary

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Geography

It covers an area

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 of 94.21 km² (36 sq mi) and has a population

Population

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 of 4101 people (2005).