Aba (Hungary)
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| State : | Hungary | ||||
| Region : | Central Transdanubia | ||||
| County : | Fejér | ||||
| Small area until December 31, 2012 : | Aba | ||||
| Coordinates : | 47 ° 2 ' N , 18 ° 31' E | ||||
| Area : | 88.05 km² | ||||
| Residents : | 4,674 (Jan 1, 2011) | ||||
| Population density : | 53 inhabitants per km² | ||||
| Telephone code : | (+36) 22 | ||||
| Postal code : | 8127 | ||||
| KSH kódja: | 17376 | ||||
| Structure and administration (status: 2014) | |||||
| Community type : | city | ||||
| Mayor : | Lajos Kossa (independent) | ||||
| Postal address : | Rákóczi út 12 8127 Aba |
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| (Source: A Magyar Köztársaság helységnévkönyve 2011. január 1st at Központi statisztikai hivatal ) | |||||
Aba is a town in the Aba suburb of Fejér County in Hungary . Aba is the administrative seat of the small area. In 2011, 4,674 inhabitants lived in an area of 88.05 km².
Geographical location
The Balaton (German Balaton ), the largest lake in Western and Central Europe is, west of Aba in 27 km distance.
The M7 motorway to Budapest runs north-west, 13 km from Aba.
Latène Age burial ground
A Celtic grave was found during a burial in the (modern) cemetery of the Felsõbáránd district . A rescue excavation carried out in 1968 uncovered two more graves. A body burial and a cremation with some grave goods could be dated for the time of the Early and Middle Latène (around the 3rd century BC). In the round applied to the burial circular trenches were found two vessels with pork bone in the grave 2 itself as grave goods a bronze primer pair with chain, a likewise bronze pseudo filigree primer , two fragments of glass bracelets and one of lignite . The pseudo-filigree primer is a local product.
The finds are now in the Szent István Király Muzeum in Székesfehérvár .
sons and daughters of the town
- Anthony de Jasay , actually Jászay Antal (1925–2019), liberal philosopher and economist
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eva Petres: A kelták Fejér megyében. [The Celts in Fejér County (summary)]. Fejér megye története, Székesfehérvár 1971; In: Susanne Sievers , Otto Helmut Urban , Peter C. Ramsl: Lexicon for Celtic Archeology. A – K. Announcements of the prehistoric commission in the publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-7001-6765-5 , pp. 1–2.