Solt (Croatian: ''Šolta'')Hrvatski glasnik br.35/2007.
Prvo mjesto na međunarodnome nogometnom turniru is a town in Bács-Kiskun county,

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. Near Solt there is a high-power

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History

Early Solt

The region has been populated since the Stone Age. The results of diggings brought up

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coins, weapons, and bodies. The road from the province of

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cut through Solt. The first written documents mentioning Solt date back to 1145. Solt was under the jurisdiction of the

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Kalocsa Kalocsa (; hr, Kaloča or ''Kalača''; sr, Kaloča or Калоча; german: Kollotschau) is a town in Bács-Kiskun county, Hungary. It lies south of Budapest. It is situated in a marshy but highly productive district, near the left bank of the ...

from the 11th until the 13th century.

Local legend

There is a local legend about the establishment of Solt. It is called the Legend of the Golden Key. According to the legend,

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gave two golden keys to the town of Solt for hiding him from the invading

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s. The keys were hidden on top of the local

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church which was hit by

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. The keys melted and were never found again. Since then they are only seen in the

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of the town.

Middle Ages

When Hungary was occupied by the

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, Solt lost much of its population. The town is mentioned many times during the Hungarian uprising against the

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;

Francis II Rákóczi Francis II Rákóczi ( hu, II. Rákóczi Ferenc, ; 27 March 1676 – 8 April 1735) was a Hungarian nobleman and leader of Rákóczi's War of Independence against the Habsburgs in 1703–11 as the prince ( hu, fejedelem) of the Estates Confedera ...

kept his army in the region. In the second half of the 18th century, the North Hungarian

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purchased the town and the surrounding area. The

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s of Baron Révay, Graf

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, Graf

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, Graf

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, Graf Benyovszky, Graf Czebrián, Graf

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, and the

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family were built in the 19th century. During the

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Solt was an important camp of the Hungarian

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20th Century

lost both

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which caused death and destruction in Solt. Afterwards, the country was occupied by the

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army and

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spread quickly. Finally, after 1989, Hungary regained her independence and Solt started to rise again. The town is now home to many independent businesses. In the 1970s, a 2000 kW medium-wave broadcasting station called Transmitter Solt was built to receive signal from the Hungary.

Notable residents

Árpád Weisz Árpád Weisz (; also spelt ''Veisz''; 16 April 1896 – 31 January 1944) was a Hungarian Olympic football player and manager. Weisz was Jewish, and was murdered with his wife and children by the Nazis during the Holocaust in World War II at Ausc ...

(1896-1944), Hungarian Olympic football player and manager

References

External links

* in Hungarian {{DEFAULTSORT:Solt Populated places in Bács-Kiskun County Towns in Hungary