Apaj is a village in ,

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Location

The village is in the neighbourhood of

Kiskunság National Park Kiskunság National Park ( hu, Kiskunsági Nemzeti Park) is a national park located in Danube–Tisza Interfluve mainly in Bács-Kiskun county, Hungary. It was created in 1975 and declared a biosphere reserve by the UNESCO. The park covers an ar ...

and is from

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. Primary route 51 serves the village by road. The Budapest–

Kelebia Kelebia is a village in Bács-Kiskun county, in the Southern Great Plain region of southern Hungary. The railway crossing into the Serbian province of Vojvodina is located here. Croats in Hungary call this village ''Kelebija''. Živko ...

railway line’s station,

Dömsöd Dömsöd is a village in Pest county, Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the ...

is next to Apaj. The River Ráckeve-Duna is from the village.

History

The first mention of the village is in 1291 as . It was royal property for a while, but later it was owned by nuns who lived on Margaret Island. The Balassa family owned Apaj as well. In the 15th century there were two parts to Apaj: (Lower Apaj) and (Upper Apaj). During the Turkish rule of Ottoman Hungary the village suffered almost complete destruction, but from the 19th century the village was growing. At that time the village was called hu, Apajpuszta (Apaj

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). After 1945 Apaj lost its title as a separate manor and it became part of Dömsöd, but thanks to the Kinskunsag State Farm it once again became an independent village in 1985. Apaj is famous of for

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and

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and has an international reputation for

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s. There are many great bustards too. Between 1967 and 2006 the village held the Kiskunsag Shepherd and Jockey Festival.

Landmarks

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, which was built with the help of the

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Plan and dedicated on 24 April 2005 * Millennium Park * Upper Kiskunsag Plain is part of the Kiskunsag National Park.

References

Notes

Populated places in Pest County {{Pest-geo-stub