Taszár

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Location of Taszár
Coordinates: 46°22′34″N17°54′21″E / 46.37616°N 17.90581°E / 46.37616; 17.90581 Coordinates: 46°22′34″N17°54′21″E / 46.37616°N 17.90581°E / 46.37616; 17.90581
Country Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary
Region Southern Transdanubia
County Somogy
District Kaposvár
RC Diocese Kaposvár
Area
  Total 17.29 km2 (6.68 sq mi)
Population (2017)
  Total 1,903 [1]
Demonym(s) taszári
Time zone UTC+1 (CET)
  Summer (DST) UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code 7261
Area code(s) (+36) 82
NUTS 3 code HU232
MP Mihály Witzmann (Fidesz)
Website Taszár Online

Taszár is a village in Somogy county, Hungary. The Taszár Air Base is located here.

Somogy County Counties of Hungary in Southern Transdanubia

Somogy is an administrative county in present Hungary, and also in the former Kingdom of Hungary.

Hungary Country in Central Europe

Hungary is a country in Central Europe. Spanning 93,030 square kilometres (35,920 sq mi) in the Carpathian Basin, it borders Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Austria to the northwest, Romania to the east, Serbia to the south, Croatia to the southwest, and Slovenia to the west. With about 10 million inhabitants, Hungary is a medium-sized member state of the European Union. The official language is Hungarian, which is the most widely spoken Uralic language in the world. Hungary's capital and its largest city and metropolis is Budapest. Other major urban areas include Debrecen, Szeged, Miskolc, Pécs and Győr.

Taszár Air Base airport

Taszár Air Base is a military air base located near Taszár, a village in Somogy county, Hungary. It is 10 kilometres (5 NM) east of Kaposvár.

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Etymology

The name comes from Slavic tesar (a carpenter), see e.g. Tesáre or Tesáre nad Žitavou. Tazar (1358). [2]

Slavic languages languages of the Slavic peoples

The Slavic languages are the Indo-European languages spoken by the Slavic peoples. They are thought to descend from a proto-language called Proto-Slavic, spoken during the Early Middle Ages, which in turn is thought to have descended from the earlier Proto-Balto-Slavic language, linking the Slavic languages to the Baltic languages in a Balto-Slavic group within the Indo-European family.

Tesáre municipality of Slovakia

Tesáre is municipality in the Topoľčany District of the Nitra Region, Slovakia. In 2011 it had 712 inhabitants.

History and infrastructure

The village structure of the traditional Hungarian village was radically changed in the 1950s when they built the military air base. The military objects occupy a significant part of the town. This is particularly the inclusion of the airport and the barracks. The houses in the village were built at the airport and the barracks of soldiers were 2-3 storey, mostly flat-roofed buildings.

In 1995 the village were target of international and domestic interest. The Taszár Air Base became the logistical base of IFOR and later SFOR troops. In 2003 the Taszár Air Base took part in the training of the Iraqi volunteers.

Taszár has sealed roads and pavements. 300 children are studying in the primary school which has a modern language laboratory and a computer room to help students and the work of the teachers. The village's medical center has modern medical and dental equipment.

There's a closed-loop 18-channel cable TV system in the village. 98% of the village's houses is able to watch the local information broadcast. Since 2002 the village has information office, whose services cover the field of the village's agricultural and industrial entrepreneurs. There are ability for both the youth and the older people to gain access to the Internet in purpose of getting information online.

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References

  1. Taszár, KSH
  2. Kiss, Lajos (1978). Földrajzi nevek etimológiai szótára (in Hungarian). Budapest: Akadémiai. p. 634.