Bátorliget (before 1975: ''Aporliget'') is a
village
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in
Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county, in the
Northern Great Plain region
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of eastern
Hungary
Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning much 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 south, Croatia and ...
.
The village (then named Aporliget) was the last one to be
electrified in the country, on August 20, 1963, thus completing the 75-year-long process of electrification (which incidentally started in a nearby town,
Mátészalka, in 1888).
Geography
It covers an
area of and has a
population of 669 people (2015).
Nearby is Bátorliget Pasture NCA (Nature Conservation Area).
References
Populated places in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County
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