Settlement Type: | Village |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Timezone: | CET |
Utc Offset: | +1 |
Timezone Dst: | CEST |
Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
Official Name: | Ferencszállás |
Subdivision Type1: | County |
Subdivision Name1: | Csongrád |
Area Total Km2: | 5.79 |
Population As Of: | 2015 |
Population Total: | 605[1] |
Population Density Km2: | 104.5 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Postal Code: | 6774 |
Area Code: | 62 |
Ferencszállás is a village in the Szeged District of Csongrád county, in the Southern Great Plain region of southern Hungary.
It covers an area of 5.790NaN0 and has a population of 605 people (2015).[1] The village is accessible via Hungary's Highway 43. The town lies along the river Maros, 10.5 kilometers west of Makó.
The village of Ferencszállás was founded in 1828 by the Hungarian baron Gerliczy Ferenc, from whom its name derives. Ferencszállás is located on a plain once known as "Kukutyin puszta", which was the site of tobacco drying barns between 1810 and 1814.