Hercegszántó (
Croatian :
Santovo ,
Serbian :
Сантово ) is a
village in
Bács-Kiskun County in
Hungary , famous for being the birthplace of footballer
Flórián Albert . Residents are Magyars, with minority of
Serbs and
Croats .
Until the end of
World War II , the
Danube Swabians lived in this village, it was the only village of
Stifulder , in the Bács-Kiskun county. The Stifulder are a Roman Catholic subgroup of the Danube Swabians whose ancestors arrived in the 17th and 18th centuries from the
Fulda District . Majority of the Danube Swabians was expelled to
Allied-occupied Germany and
Allied-occupied Austria in 1945–1948, as a result of the
Potsdam Agreement .
A border crossing into Serbia is located near Hercegszántó. The Serbian town of Bački Breg lies across the border. It is also only a few kilometres away from Croatia .
Notable people
Flórián Albert , footballer, born in Hercegszántó in 1941István Blazsetin (1941–2001) , Croatian poet and writer, born in Hercegszántó in 1941István Gyurity , film and stage actor, born in Hercegszántó in 1970Gusztáv Kondor [hu ] astronomer, mathematician, and geodesist, born in Hercegszántó in 1825Paul Mandy [fr ] , economist, born in Hercegszántó in 1927Ferenc Tüske , olympic volleyball player, born in Hercegszántó in 1942Zsigmond Villányi , olympic pentathlete, born in Hercegszántó in 1950
References
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