Apostag

Apostag
Coat of arms
Apostag Location of Apostag in Bács-Kiskun County Show map of Bács-Kiskun County Apostag Location of Apostag in Hungary Show map of Hungary
Coordinates: 46°52′51″N 18°57′35″E
Country	Hungary
Region	Southern Great Plain
County	Bács-Kiskun
District	Kunszentmiklós
Area
• Total	31.94 km^2 (12.33 sq mi)
Population  (2015)
• Total	2,010
• Density	63/km^2 (160/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	6088
Area code	78

Apostag is a village and municipality in Bács-Kiskun county, in the Southern Great Plain region of southern Hungary.

Croats in Hungary call this village Štagara.^[1]

Geography

It covers an area of 31.94 km² (12 sq mi) and has a population of 2010 people (2015).

History

In the medieval ages the village had a rotunda with 12 sided poligonal shape and its patrocinium was: The 12 Apostles. There was also similar patrocinium of Bény rotunda, recently in Bíňa, Slovakia.

Gallery

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References

• Gervers-Molnár Vera: A középkori Magyarország rotundái. (Romanesque Round Churches of Medieval Hungary.) (Mûvészettörténeti Füzetek, 4.) Akadémiai Kiadó. Budapest, 1972.

Notes

1. "Folia onomastica croatica 14/2005" (in Croatian). (462 KB) Živko Mandić: Hrvatska imena naseljenih mjesta u Madžarskoj,

External links

• (in Hungarian) Apostag Község hivatalos honlapja
• (in Hungarian) Apostag a Vendégvárón
• (in Hungarian) Apostag.lap.hu
• (in Hungarian) Légifotók Apostagról