Balatonkeresztúr is a village in Somogy county, Hungary.
The settlement is part of the Balatonboglár wine region. A Balatonboglári borvidék hegyközségi tanácsának alapszabálya (PDF)
Etymology According to the local tradition, the village's name comes from the crossing of roads (). However, the more well-accepted theory states that, like many other villages in Somogy County, Balatonkeresztúr was named after the patron of its church, in this case, Szent Kereszt ().
History According to László Szita, the settlement was completely Hungarian in the 18th century.László Szita : Somogy megyei nemzetiségek településtörténete a XVIII-XIX. században - Somogyi Almanach 52. (Kaposvár, 1993)
Culture The Hungarian folk song Szép a huszár, ha felül a lovára was collected in 1923 in Balatonkeresztúr by Lajos Bárdos.
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