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Kiskunlacháza is a town located in Ráckeve district in south-western part of Pest county in the northern part of Central Hungary, approximately 4 miles from the Danube river. It was formed from the merger of two formerly independent villages, Kiskunlacháza (Lacháza), a predominantly Protestant and wealthy village and Pereg a mostly Catholic and rural village, and then officially merged (1950), and is now considered the largest settlement in the area. The President of Republic granted town status for Kiskunlacháza on 01 September 2021.
The first known name of the village, named after the inhabitants of Kiskun and the medieval landowner Lack family, is Szántó, which is first mentioned in a document in 1285. Pereg also existed in the Middle Ages, and there are references to it in several places from the early 1300s. During the 150 years of Turkish rule, Lacháza was forced to flee several times, and Pereg became a wasteland.
Its population is about 9100 persons (by 2022 Census).
Zoltan Horvath, 06 January 2025
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image by Zoltan Horvath, 06 January 2025
The current coat of arms adopted in 2023 by the same Municipal Decree. Before that, the coats of arms of the two parts of the settlement were used in parallel. The designer of current coat of arms, András Somogyi, unified these two coats of arms into one, forming the new coat of arms, symbolizing the merger of the two settlements.
Annex 1 shows the image of the coat of arms:
https://or.njt.hu/download/348/resources/EJR_59720498-Kiskunlacha_za_2.pdf
Zoltan Horvath, 06 January 2025
image by Zoltan Horvath, 06 January 2025
The previous flag of Kiskunlacháza was adopted in 2022, and it was similar to current flag, divided into four triangles, white and sky blue, but coat of arms of Lacháza was placed only in the center of the flag. Its ratio was 1:2.
Images of previous flag:
https://kiskunlachaza.hu/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/051.jpg
https://kiskunlachaza.hu/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/001-1.jpg
Zoltan Horvath, 06 January 2025
Before 2022, two separate flags were used.
image by Zoltan Horvath, 06 January 2025
image by Zoltan Horvath, 06 January 2025
Pereg’s flag was horizontally divided into a sky blue and a white stripes, and its shield was placed in the center of the flag.
Image of flags when two flags were used in parallel:
https://kiskunlachaza.hu/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/22_LNV_megnyito_006.jpg
https://kiskunlachaza.hu/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/22_LNV_megnyito_003.jpg
It is quite interesting that two flags were used together in early of 2024, too.
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=3518085941775010
Zoltan Horvath, 06 January 2025
Before 2022, two coats of arms were used parallelly.
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image by Zoltan Horvath, 06 January 2025
Lacháza had a light blue (originally green) shield with a brown ornamental bordure and topped with count's crown. A white horizontal stripe runs along the shield. (This coat of arms was also used between 2022 and 2023 as the coat of arms of the entire town.)
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image by Zoltan Horvath, 06 January 2025
Pereg had a vertically divided shield, green, white (grey) and green with a bunch of grapes.
Image of two coats of arms:
https://kiskunlachaza.hu/kiskunlachaza/a-varos-tortenete/
Zoltan Horvath, 06 January 2025
