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Baja
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town in Bács-Kiskun County in southern Hungary
Baja is a town located in Bács-Kiskun County in the southern part of Hungary. It serves as a regional center in this area of the country.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city with municipal rights
- Official name
- Baja
- Country
- Hungary
- Located in
- Baja District
- Population
- 32401
- Area
- 177.61
- Elevation
- 95
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Shares border with
- Pörböly
- Official website
- www.bajaionkormanyzat.hu
- Image
- Baja, városháza 2021 01.jpg
- Dialing code
- 79
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- postal code
- 6500
- twinned administrative body
- Subotica
- Commons category
- Baja, Hungary
- topic's main category
- Category:Baja, Hungary
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Baja (Hungary)
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Baja, Hungary
- described by source
- Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron
- native label
- Baja
- time of earliest written record
- 1308-00-00
- P12749
- Q151538
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Encyclopedic overview
Baja ( Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈbɒjɒ]) is a city with county rights in Bács-Kiskun County, southern Hungary. It is the second-largest city in the county, after the county seat of Kecskemét, and is home to some 35,000 people. Baja is the seat of Baja Municipality.
The Baja region has been continuously inhabited since the end of the Iron Age, but there is evidence of human presence since prehistoric times. The settlement itself was most likely established in the 14th century. After the Ottoman Empire conquered Hungary, it grew to prominence more than the other nearby settlements, and it was granted town rights in 1696.
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