Kiskunfélegyháza () is a city in Bács-Kiskun County, Hungary.
Geography Kiskunfélegyháza is located in the middle of the Great Hungarian Plain, southeast from Budapest. M5 motorway, Highway 5, 451, Budapest–Cegléd–Szeged railway line and railway lines to Szolnok, Kiskunhalas and Szentes also cross the town.Magyarország autóatlasz, Dimap-Szarvas, Budapest, 2004, The surrounding country is covered with vineyards, fruit gardens, and tobacco and corn fields.
Name Félegyháza means "half church" in Hungarian, while prefix Kiskun refers to the region Kiskunság ("Little Cumania").
History
Numerous Roman urns and other ancient relics have been dug up in the vicinity.
Conquering Hungarians arrived in the 9th century, adopted Christianity and settled down in the region by the 10th century. The first settlements devastated by the Mongols in 1241–42, the region became uninhabited. King Béla IV invited Cuman settlers,Antal Papp: Magyarország (Hungary), Panoráma, Budapest, 1982, , p. 860, pp. 405-407 who also adopted Christianity, farming lifestyle and the Hungarian language.Károly Kocsis (DSc, University of Miskolc) – Zsolt Bottlik (PhD, Budapest University) – Patrik Tátrai: Etnikai térfolyamatok a Kárpát-medence határon túli régióiban, Magyar Tudományos Akadémia (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) – Földrajtudományi Kutatóintézet (Academy of Geographical Studies); Budapest; 2006.; , CD Atlas The town was existing in 1389 when a document mentions Feledház, an earlier name for the settlement. The town was ruined in 1526 by Ottoman troops and was uninhabited until the Christian troops liberated the area.
Kiskunfélegyháza was reestablished by Roman Catholic Hungarian settlers from Jászfényszaru and Üllés in 1743. Queen Maria Theresa moved the courts and prisons for the Kiskun district to Kiskunfélegyháza in 1753 and granted town privileges also in 1774.
Notable people Ferenc Móra (1879–1934), novelist Béla Magyari (1949–2018), cosmonaut Sándor Petőfi (1823–1849), national poet László Réczi (1947), wrestler Csaba Szűcs (1965), athlete Gyula Zsivótzky (1937–2007), athlete Tamás Sulyok (1956), lawyer, President of Hungary
In popular culture Kiskunfélegyháza is briefly mentioned in the 2025 videogame Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2
Twin towns – sister cities
Kiskunfélegyháza is twinned with:
Bagnols-sur-Cèze, France Braunfels, Germany Corund, Romania Die, France Feltre, Italy Jászfényszaru, Hungary Kikinda, Serbia Rabka-Zdrój, Poland Sighișoara, Romania
Turda, Romania Uhrovec, Slovakia
See also Bankfalu
References
External links
in Hungarian