Gödény-halom () is a
prehistoric mound situated near the village of
Békésszentandrás in
Békés County
Békés (, , ro, Județul Bichiș) is an administrative division (county or ''megye'') in south-eastern Hungary, on the border with Romania. It shares borders with the Hungarian counties Csongrád, Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok, and Hajdú-Bihar. The ...
, in the
Southern Great Plain
The Southern Great Plain ( hu, Dél-Alföld) is a statistical ( NUTS 2) region of Hungary. It is part of Great Plain and North (NUTS 1) region. The Southern Great Plain includes three counties:
* Bács-Kiskun
* Békés
* Csongrád-Csanád
See ...
region of south-east
Hungary
Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning 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 ...
.
Description
Gödény-halom is situated 7 kilometres away from the inner area of Békésszentandrás, close to the old road to
Szentes
Szentes is a town in south-eastern Hungary, Csongrád county, near the Tisza river. The town is a cultural and educational center of the region.
Notable people
* Árpád Balázs (born 1937), classical music composer
* János Bácskai 1954. novemb ...
.
It is in the one-time flood area of the River
Hármas-Körös.
The name gödény ( en, pelican) refers to the fact that it was once a roosting spot for pelicans in the swampy area.
Today, it marks the county boundaries of Békés,
Csongrád
Csongrád ( ro, Ciongrad; tr, Conğrad sr, Чонград, Čongrad, 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 ...
and
Szolnok
Szolnok (; also known by other #Name and etymology, alternative names) is the county seat of Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok county in central Hungary. A City with county rights, city with county rights, it is located on the banks of the Tisza river, i ...
.
Part of the northern side has been destroyed for the building of roads and a nearby dam.
Gödény-halom is the largest of the so-called
Cumanian mounds of central Europe, and the highest prehistoric mound in Hungary with a height 12.2 metres.
The Cumanian mounds are structures of uncertain age and origin and made by humans.
It is generally thought that they were used as burial places in the Neolithic and Bronze Ages.
References
Tumuli
Archaeological sites in Hungary
Tourist attractions in Békés County
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