🇭🇺 Kiskunfélegyháza is a city in Bács-Kiskun County, Hungary.
Geography Kiskunfélegyháza is located in the middle of the Great Hungarian Plain, 130 km (81 mi) south-east from Budapest. M5 motorway, Highway 5, 451, Budapest–Cegléd–Szeged railway line and railway lines to Szolnok, Kiskunhalas and Szentes also cross the town. The surrounding country is covered with vineyards, fruit gardens, and tobacco and corn fields.
Name Félegyháza means "half church" in Hungarian, while prefix Kiskun refers to the region Kiskunság ("Little Cumania").
History Numerous Roman urns and other ancient relics have been dug up in the vicinity.
Conquering Hungarians arrived in the 9th century, adopted Christianity and settled down in the region by the 10th century. The first settlements devastated by the Mongols in 1241–42, the region became uninhabited. King Béla IV invited Cuman settlers, who also adopted Christianity, farming lifestyle and the Hungarian language. The town was existing in 1389 when a document mentions Feledház, an earlier name for the settlement. The town was ruined in 1526 by Ottoman troops and was uninhabited until the Christian troops liberated the area.
Kiskunfélegyháza was reestablished by Roman Catholic Hungarian settlers from Jászfényszaru and Üllés in 1743. Queen Maria Theresa moved the courts and prisons for the Kiskun district to Kiskunfélegyháza in 1753 and granted town privileges also in 1774.
Kiskunfélegyháza has a population of over 30,170 people. Kiskunfélegyháza also forms part of the wider Bács-Kiskun County which has a population of over 513,687 people. Kiskunfélegyháza is situated 35 km south-east of Kecskemét.
Twin Towns, Sister Cities Kiskunfélegyháza has links with:
🇫🇷 Bagnols-sur-Cèze, France 🇩🇪 Braunfels, Germany 🇷🇴 Corund, Romania 🇫🇷 Die, France 🇮🇹 Feltre, Italy 🇭🇺 Jászfényszaru, Hungary 🇷🇸 Kikinda, Serbia 🇵🇱 Rabka-Zdrój, Poland 🇷🇴 Sighișoara, Romania 🇷🇴 Turda, Romania 🇸🇰 Uhrovec, Slovak Republic🇫🇷 Saint-Amand-Montrond 46.726
🇺🇦 Nova Kakhovka 46.75
🇷🇴 Cluj-Napoca 46.777
🇫🇷 Chalon-sur-Saône 46.78
🇦🇹 Spittal an der Drau 46.783
🇭🇺 Békéscsaba 46.679
🇫🇷 Lons-le-Saunier 46.676
🇫🇷 La Roche-sur-Yon 46.671
🇲🇳 Baruun-Urt 46.667
🇸🇮 Murska Sobota 46.661
🇭🇺 Jászberény 19.915
Locations Near: Kiskunfélegyháza 19.8497,46.712
🇭🇺 Kecskemét 19.693,46.908 d: 24.8
🇭🇺 Csongrád 20.145,46.711 d: 22.5
🇭🇺 Szentes 20.258,46.651 d: 31.9
🇭🇺 Cegléd 19.792,47.17 d: 51.1
🇭🇺 Szeged 20.154,46.253 d: 56.1
🇭🇺 Hódmezővásárhely 20.318,46.413 d: 48.9
🇭🇺 Kiskőrös 19.284,46.62 d: 44.4
Antipodal to: Kiskunfélegyháza -160.15,-46.712
🇹🇴 Nuku'alofa -175.216,-21.136 d: 16862.3
🇵🇫 Papeete -149.566,-17.537 d: 16628.5
🇦🇸 Pago Pago -170.701,-14.279 d: 16277.4
🇼🇸 Apia -171.76,-13.833 d: 16202.2
🇺🇸 Hilo -155.089,19.725 d: 12610.1
🇺🇸 Maui -156.446,20.72 d: 12507.7
🇺🇸 Maui County -156.617,20.868 d: 12492.2
🇺🇸 Kahului -156.466,20.891 d: 12488.8