Horváth M. Ferenc (szerk.): Vác The heart of the Danube Bend. A historical guide for residents and globetrotters (Vác, 2009)

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Trips to the area to the south of Vác

If we leave the town

heading for Budapest we get to a lowland:

Pest Plain, the northernmost corner of the Great Hungarian Plain stretches this far. The area had specific significance during the last decades of the Roman Empire: on the borderline of the empire and the Barbarians trade and crafts were prospering. Following the Ottoman occupation, which devastated the settlements, centres of landed property were formed here. Later the riverside area was parcelled out and holiday resort colonies were formed on the bank of the Danube. After World War I numerous civil servants, who had been removed from the disannexed Hungarian territories, settled down in the area.

Due to the railway and the proximity of the capital local industry began to develop. Today the settlements situated here belong to the conurbation of Budapest.

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