Kiskunhalas

Kiskunhalas is a metropolis in Bacs-Kiskun County, Hungary. Its recognized records is going again to the 9th century. Kiskunhalas has many archaeological artifacts. These are displayed within the János Thorma Museum, hooked up in honor of an early 20th-century painter who changed into born and grew up here.

Several villages have been known to had been inside the region from 895. The location became full-size whilst the Cumans arrived. Its call is derived from the Hungarian phrase, Kun, for the Cumans. The first written documents citing Halas date to 1347. After 1596, the metropolis misplaced a lot of its populace due to war at some point of the Ottoman invasion and plague. In the 16th and 17th centuries, Kiskunhalas welcomed the Protestant Reformation. Until 1754 the town changed into the center of the region, but after that, its significance declined beneath Catholic rulers because of the local people's guide for Protestantism. A Roman Catholic church became built in 1770. A new Reformed church was constructed in 1823.