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by Istvan Molnar, 8 March 2001
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The flag of the city - Verical , CoA on white was located at: http://www.c3.hu/~ahalom/Cimerz.jpg
Dov Gutterman, 28 December 1998
A'sotthalom is a village. A'ssothalom is located in Csongra'd
County 31 km west from Szeged City
Istvan Molnar, 31 July 2000
Ásotthalom is a village in Csongrád County in Hungary near
to City of Szeged (33 km west). The village has got 4.106
inhabitants (1990 census), all of them are Hungarians.
Neighbouring settlements are: Mórahalom town, Ruzsa, Öttömös,
Kelebia villages and Subotica / Szabadka community (Yugoslavia).
The settlement is a farmland with two larger center: Kissor
(Little Terrace) and Gátsor (Gát Terrace).
The territory of the settlement is inhabited from the Bronze Age.
In the early Middle Ages many settlements were here. One of them
was Átokháza, which was settled by Cumanian settlers in 1280.
At the time of the Turkish wars the territory was devastated and
became a part of Szeged City. The first mention of Ásotthalom
as one territory of the farms on the territory of Szeged City is
from 1778. In 1850 City of Szeged built a new farm in the center
of nowadays settlement: Várostanya. Ásotthalom became a new
independent settlement in 1950.
The flag and the CoA were adopted on 28. July 1997 by the
Resolution No. 9/1997. (VII.17.) at http://www.morahalom.hu/homokhat/ahre997.htm
Description of the CoA of the village: The form of the standing
shield divided into four parts relates to the satchel of
herdsmen. In the left red field, in the silver thorn wreath there
is a gold cross growing from the gold flames dartig up from a
gold heart. This symbol relates to the living religious life of
the community and the title of the church: 'The Holy Heart of
Jesus Christ". In the right blue field there is a silver
lamb, near it there is a black sheperd's crook stuck into the
green field. These symbols relate to the occupation of the
members of the settlements from the Hungarian Conquest to
nowadays: the shepherding. Even the "Emperor and King"
Francis-Joseph I. had eaten the meal cooked by the local
sheperds. The lamb relates to the pastures leased by the City of
Szeged. In the bottom left blue field, on the central higher hill
of the green triplicate hills there is a black TURUL (bird)
turned right looked at left and its wings are spread. In the
right gold talon of the bird there is a silver sword with gold
hilt. This symbol relates to the name of the settlement.
Ásotthalom means 'Excavated Hill'. There was the seat of Atilla
the Great King of the Huns by the legends and many people made
excavations trying to find his jewels. The black TURUL was
Atilla's symbol by the legends. In the right bottom red field
there is a "sand iris" (?) relates to the flora of the
settlement. The crown above the shield relates to the
selfgovernment of the village.
Informations from the website of the settlement.
Istvan Molnar, 8 March 2001
by Istvan Molnar, 8 March 2001
cs-ah.jpg)
from http://www.csongrad-megye.hu/teir/telepul/asotth.htm
, located by Istvan Molnar
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