European Field Target Championship 2016

Sat, Apr 21, 2018

 

                       

THE HISTORY OF SARLÓSPUSZTA

 

As it is told by the Pustan Rascals (Betyár)...

"Francisco Rákóczi II., a reigning prince (chief) of the early 18th century, during one of the sieges of Kurutz freedom fights set up his camp in the place of present Sarlóspuszta in 1710. It was here that he met a beautiful woman, Sára Sarló, whom he fell in love with for the first glance.
The Transylvanian nobleman had this mansion built as a lovenest for the nice woman and named it after her as the Pusta of SarlóSára (today Sarlóspuszta). During the years of his exile in Turkey Sarlóspuszta became the most important refuge of hiding freedom fighters and also of pustan rascals from the neighbourhood, who, not just found a plate of hot meal there, but hide and protection, as well.

 

As it is explained by historians...

 

Tatárszentgyörgy is the Southernmost settlement of Comitat Pest. Its most ancient archeological remains date back to the Bronze Age. The settlement at its present name occur first in 1507 in records. The village had been abandoned during the fifteen-year-war. The resettlement and repopulation of it took place gradually until the end of the 18th century.

Geography:

This country is situated in the centre of the continent Europe. It is Europe’s eastern part. This is the Carpathian Basin. Visitors already found a Hungarian State one thousand years ago.
Its capital is Budapest.

Budapest

This is a small country. 

The country occupies a territory of about 93 000 square kilometres. Longest distance from north to south is 268 km. Longest distance from east to west is 526 km.

It shares borders to the north with the Slovak Republic, to the north-east with Ukraine, to the east with Romania, to the south with Croatia and Serbia and to the west with Austria and Slovenia.

Our country can be divided into three large regions: Transdanubia, the Great Plain and the Northern Mountains.There are several ranges of hills, chiefly in the north and west.

The Great Plain stretches east from the Danube to the hills of the Carpathian Mountains. As much as 50 % of the country’s territory is flat:

the Great Hungarian Plain occupies the entire eastern part of the country and the small Plain lies along the north-west border.