Baks Explained

Settlement Type:Village
Subdivision Type:Country
Coordinates:46.55°N 26°W
Pushpin Map:Hungary
Pushpin Map Caption:Location of Baks in Hungary
Pushpin Map Caption1:Location of Baks in Csongrád
Timezone:CET
Utc Offset:+1
Timezone Dst:CEST
Utc Offset Dst:+2
Official Name:Baks
Subdivision Type1:County
Subdivision Name1:Csongrád
Area Total Km2:61.92
Population As Of:2016
Population Total:2300
Population Density Km2:37.05
Postal Code Type:Postal code
Postal Code:6768
Area Code:62

Baks is a village in Csongrád County, in the Southern Great Plain region of southern Hungary.

Geography

It covers an area of 61.920NaN0 and has a population of 2300 people (2016).[1]

History

Human settlement in the village dates back at least to the late Bronze Age, as classical Gáva-Holigrady culture artifacts have been found in Baks along the Tisza River.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Molnar . Melinda . Bogardi . Tunde . January 1, 2016 . Researching the spatial aspects of the Romani-Hungarian coexistence by the means of mental mapping. . The Central European Journal of Regional Development And Tourism . 8 . 3 . 170–184.
  2. Kosa . Polett . 2022 . Special ceramic figurines from the Late Bronze Age settlement of Baks-Temetőpart. . Dissertationes Archaeologicae . 3 . 10 . 93–128.