Csurgo

Csurgo is a town in Somogy County, Hungary and the seat of Csurgo District. The agreement is a part of the Balatonboglár wine place. The territory of Csurgo became already inhabited in prehistoric times in step with archaeological unearths. During the Roman instances this vicinity turned into on the road which linked Pannonia province to the Adriatic Sea. Csurgo became first stated inside the setting up charter of the Abbey of Zalavar in 1019 when Saint Stephen of Hungary donated the village and its items to the Benedictine priests. During the Arpad technology it was one of the lands of the loose royal swineherds. Then later the sister of Bela III, Margit gave it to the Crusaders. They settled at the so-referred to as Felso-Csurgo English: Upper Csurgo part of the village on a hill in a marsh.

Then later the Order of Malta arrived on that area. There was additionally a church built in the thirteenth century which changed into repeatedly rebuilt for the reason that 1731. Sebestyen Tinodi Lantos moved here in 1543 and stayed for 2 years after his lord was captured with the aid of the Turks. During the Turkish occupation the town misplaced most of its residents.