Karoly Kocsis and Eszter Kocsis-Hodosi : Hungarian Minorities in the Carpathian Basin

YUGOSLAVIA (SERBIA)

25. Long tour in the Banat region (660 km)

NOVI KNEZEVAC / TÖRÖKKANIZSA (8,062; 38.7 % Hung.): former district, currently commune seat - pasteboard and box manufacturing - Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches - Maldeghem manor-house - Tallián mansion - Szerviczky manor-house

BANATSKO ARANDJELOVO / OROSZLÁMOS (1,912; 27.1 % Hung.): - Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches

MAJDAN / MAJDÁNY (387; 89.9 % Hung.): - Hungarian enclave - Roman Catholic church

CRNA BARA / FEKETETÓ (595; 50 % Hung.): - Hungarian-Serbian village - Orthodox church

COKA / CSÓKA (5,244; 61.1 % Hung.): commune seat - Roman Catholic church - large state farm and agro-industrial center - Marczibányi manor-house

PADEJ / PADÉ (3,190; 70.7 % Hung.): - Roman Catholic church

SAJAN / SZAJÁN (1,555; 94.8 % Hung.): - Roman Catholic church

KIKINDA / NAGYKIKINDA (43,051; 13.8 % Hung.): former district, currently commune seat - one of the traditional center of the Serbs from Banat - industrial center - Reformed Secessionist church - Hotel Narvik - Town Hall - Town Museum - Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches - Draxler house - court-house palace

RUSKO SELO / TORONTÁLOROSZI (3,510; 39.4 % Hung.): - Hungarian enclave - Roman Catholic church - Csernovich mansion

NOVA CRNJA / MAGYARCSERNYE (2,353; 84.9 % Hung.): commune seat - Hungarian enclave - Roman Catholic church

BANATSKI DVOR / TÖRZSUDVARNOK (1,300; 46.2 % Hung.): - Hungarian enclave - Roman Catholic church

ZRENJANIN / NAGYBECSKEREK (81,316; 17.6 % Hung.): seat of the former Torontál county, currently commune seat - the largest town of the Yugoslav Banat - big industrial center ("Szervó Mihály" Agrarian Combinate, BEK, Banat Building Co., etc.) - County Hall /currently: seat of the Commune/ and its park - neo-Baroque-Secessionist Town Hall - Roman Catholic episcopal Classicist cathedral with the altar-piece of the famous Hungarian painter Bertalan Székely - Reformed church - Town Museum - History Archives - Classicist Palace of Justice - Assumption Orthodox neo-Classicist church - "Presentation of the Blessed Virgin (Varadenja Bogoradice)" Orthodox Classicist church - "Tosa Jovanoviæ" people's theatre - "Madách" Hungarian amateur theater - Technical and Pedagogical Institutes

ZRENJANIN-MUZLJA / NAGYBECSKEREK-FELSÕMUZSLYA (8,500; 80 % Hung.): - Hungarian gardening village, in 1981 annexed to Zrenjanin /Nagybecskerek - Roman Catholic church

ECKA / ÉCSKA (5,172; 4.4 % Hung.): - Rumanian-Serbian settlement - English style Harnoncourt manor-house and its park /artist workshop, fish pond/ - Orthodox church

KOVACICA / ANTALFALVA (7,426; 0.3 % Hung.): former district, currently commune seat - Slovak enclave - Lutheran church - famous naive folk-paintry (M. Jonás)

DEBELJACA / DEBELLÁCS, TORONTÁLVÁSÁRHELY (5,734; 60.9 % Hung.) : - Hungarian enclave - Reformed church

ALIBUNAR-DEVOJACKI BUNAR / ALIBUNÁR-LEÁNYKÚT: - famous tourist spot in the center of Deliblat sands, swimming-pool

ALIBUNAR / ALIBUNÁR (3,738; 1.8 % Hung.): former district, currently commune seat - Orthodox church - "Ali fountain"

JERMENOVCI / ÜRMÉNYHÁZA (1,158; 75.2 % Hung.): - Hungarian enclave - famous oil spring - thermal water - radioactive mud-bath - Roman Catholic church

VRSAC / VERSEC (36,885; 5.8 % Hung.): former district, currently commune seat - one of the traditional centers of South Banat - birthplace of the Hungarian writer Ferenc Herczeg (1863-1954) - famous viticulture, vineyards and food industry - "Zsigmond-tower" - Classicist-neo-Gothic Town Hall - Serbian Orthodox episcopal Baroque palace - St. Nicholas Serbian Orthodox episcopal Baroque cathedral - Roman Catholic neo-Gothic cathedral - Assumption Orthodox church - St. Rókus chapel - Classicist Concordia house - Baroque "Two-pistols"house - Town Museum - Town Library - "Sterija" people's theatre - vintage feast - "Versec /Vrsac Mountain" - Srbija Hotel

SUSARA / FEJÉRTELEP (472; 66.1 % Hung.): - Hungarian enclave in the Deliblat-sands - pine-woods on the mostly fixed sands, the Banat-peony (Latin: Paeonia offic. ssp. banatica) (nature conservation area) - semi-fixed windblown sand forms

KOVIN / KEVEVÁRA (13,669; 6.8 % Hung.): seat of the medieval Keve county, currently commune seat - Roman Catholic church - Serbian and Rumanian Orthodox churches

SKORENOVAC / SZÉKELYKEVE (3,213; 80.4 % Hung.): - village of Székely colonists - Roman Catholic church

PANCEVO-VOJLOVICA / PANCSOVA-HERTELENDYALVA (8,500 ; 25 % Hung.): - Serbian-Hungarian-Slovak village, annexed to Pancsova/Panèevo - Székely folk traditions - Roman Catholic church - "Vojlovica" (Orthodox) cloister

PANCEVO / PANCSOVA (72,793; 5.6 % Hung.): former district, currently commune seat - Banat's second largest town in Yugoslavia - industrial center - part of the Belgrade agglomeration - Classicist Town Hall / currently: Regional History Museum/ - Assumption Serbian Orthodox Baroque church - "Preobrazhensky" Orthodox Eclectic church - Reformed church - Roman Catholic church - Lutheran church - Weifert brewery - high school - people's garden - cultural center - Tamis Hotel - banks of Temes River - fishermen's inn

MIHAJLOVO / MAGYARSZENTMIHÁLY (1,169; 92.3 % Hung.): - Hungarian enclave - Roman Catholic church - Danube-Tisza-Danube channel

ELEMIR / ELEMÉR (4,724; 2.4 % Hung.): - Serbian village - important oil field - Roman Catholic church: grave of the Hungarian martyr general Ernõ Kiss (1800-1849) - Kiss manor-house

MELENCI / MELENCE (7,270; 1 % Hung.): - Serbian village - Orthodox church - famous "Rusanda" bath - Lake Rusanda

NOVI BECEJ / TÖRÖKBECSE (15,404; 30.2 % Hung.): former district, currently commune seat - old market place (cereals) - Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches - in Aracs (Vranjevo): ruins of a famous Hungarian medieval Romanesque church - dam on the Tisza, lock - Danube-Tisza-Danube channel - "Tiski cvet" Hotel

BECEJ / ÓBECSE (26,634; 50.5 % Hung.): former district, currently commune seat - important agro-industrial center (canning-, beer-, sugar-, mill industry) - birthplace of some Hungarian celebrities: painter Mór Than (1828-1899); painter Fülöp László (1869-1937) - Szent Antal /St. Anthony/ Roman Catholic church - Orthodox church - Town Hall - thermal baths

SENTA / ZENTA (22,827; 78.4 % Hung.): former district, currently commune seat - important agricultural center - Secessionist Town Hall - Secessionist fire-station - Secessionist Royal /currently: Pannonia/ Hotel - Roman Catholic church - Orthodox church - banks of the Tisza River - "Eugene-island", memorial of Eugene de Savoye's victorious battle of September 11, 1697 against the Turks - people's garden - Regional History Museum - artist workshop - synagogue

KANJIZA / MAGYARKANIZSA (11,541; 88.2 % Hung.): former district, currently commune seat - the "most Hungarian" town in Yugoslavia - famous thermal baths - "Banja" Hotel - banks of the Tisza River - Town Hall - Roman Catholic church - shopping center

26. Short tour in the Bácska (Baèka) region (180 km)

HORGOS / HORGOS (7,201; 83.6 % Hung.): - center of the paprika cultivation in Yugoslavia - important international border crossing point - Roman Catholic church

PALIÆ / PALICS (7,375; 61.9 % Hung.): - all-season resort of international importance - Secessionist old women's bath - water tower - zoo - Jezero, Park, Sport hotels - Lake Palics / Paliæ (water sports)

SUBOTICA / SZABADKA (100,386; 39.6 % Hung.): Vojvodina's second largest city, with extensive "tanya /farm" surroundings - commune seat, big industrial center inhabited mostly by Hungarians and Croats-Bunyevats - birthplace of the Hungarian writer, poet, journalist Dezsõ Kosztolányi (1885-1936) - biggest Secessionist City Hall in Yugoslavia with Zsolnay roof-ceramics, in it: City Museum - Secessionist Leovits palace - Secessionist synagogue - Secessionist Raichle-palace - Eclectic National Casino /currently: City Library/ - Classicist People's Theatre - puppet show - Secessionist "Fehér Hajó /White Ship" Restaurant - Bárány /currently: Beograd/ Hotel - National Hotel - Patria Hotel - Szent Teréz /St. Theresa/ Roman Catholic Baroque-Classicist church - Franciscan church and cloister - Szent Rókus chapel - Orthodox church - Sports Hall - second-hand market - "Szabadka-Horgos" sands: viticulture, vineyards - vintage festival in September - harvest festival in July

BAJMOK / BAJMOK (8,620; 34.1 % Hung.): - Hungarian-Bunyevats/Croat-Serbian settlement - Roman Catholic church - holiday center, open-air swimming pool

ALEKSA SANTIÆ / SÁRIPUSZTA (2,267; 6.6 % Hung.): - Secessionist Fernbach manor-house and its park - holiday center of the "9th May Agricultural Farm" /sports center, swimming -pool/

PACIR / PACSÉR (3,309; 65.6 % Hung.): - Reformed and Roman Catholic churches - Hungarian enclave

STARA MORAVICA / ÓMORAVICA, BÁCSKOSSUTHFALVA (6,266; 88.5 % Hung.): - Reformed and Roman Catholic churches - Hungarian enclave - 10 km long loess valley / "Bányavölgy / Mine-valley"/ - Telecska loess plateau

BACKA TOPOLA / BÁCSTOPOLYA (16,704; 66.9 % Hung.): Hungarian center of Central Bácska - former district, currently commune seat - important agrarian, food-industrial center - Roman Catholic Secessionist church - Town Hall - Rococo Kray manor-house and its English park - "Venus" Holiday center /swimming-pool/ - Panonija Hotel - Beograd Shopping Center

NOVO ORAHOVO / ZENTAGUNARAS (2,263; 83.4 % Hung.): - Hungarian scattered farmsteads

TORNJOS / TORNYOS (1,908; 84.3 % Hung.): - Roman Catholic church - Hungarian scattered farmsteads

CANTAVIR / CSANTAVÉR (7,940; 96 % Hung.): - important center of the farm-world of Szabadka /Subotica City - Roman Catholic church

SENTA / ZENTA: - see tour no. 25

KANJIZA / MAGYARKANIZSA: - see tour no. 25

MARTONOS / MARTONOS (2,423; 87.9 % Hung.): - Roman Catholic church

27. Long tour in the Bácska (Baèka) region (260 km)

HORGOS / HORGOS: - see tour no.26

PALIÆ / PALICS: - see tour no. 26

SUBOTICA / SZABADKA: - see tour no. 26

ZOBNATICA / ZOBNATICA (388; 60.3 % Hung.): - famous horse-breeding - holiday center of the Zobnatica Agricultural Farm: Lake Zobnatica - manor-house

BACKA TOPOLA / BÁCSTOPOLYA: - see tour no.

BAJSA / BAJSA (2,745; 69.4 % Hung.): - Roman Catholic, Lutheran and Orthodox churches - Fernbach mansion - Vojnics mansion

MALI IDJOS / KISHEGYES (5,803; 92.3 % Hung.): commune seat - Szent Anna /St. Ann/ Roman Catholic church

SRBOBRAN / SZENTTAMÁS (12,798; 34.4 % Hung.): commune seat - Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches - place of bloody fights between Serbs and Hungarians in 1849 - Elan Hotel - Danube-Tisza-Danube channel - open-air swimming-pool

NOVI SAD / ÚJVIDÉK (179,626; 8.8 % Hung.): capital of the Province Vojvodina - industrial, agricultural, commercial and cultural center - neo-Renaissance City Hall - Roman Catholic neo-Gothic cathedral - Catholic vicarage-office - Hotel Vojvodina - Post office tower-building - Assumption Serbian-Orthodox Baroque church - Einstein-house /memorial plaque of the famous scientist A. Einstein/ - Serbian Matica Galleries - synagogue - seat of the Province Council - Hotel Putnik - Serbian National Theatre /Modern/ - Hungarian Theatre - Orthodox episcopal neo-Byzantine cathedral - Duna /Danube street building ensemble - White Lion house - Court of Justice /currently: Vojvodina Museum/ - Seat of Matica Srpska ("Serbian Mother", old Serbian cultural organization) - St. Nicholas Orthodox church - J.J. Zmaj High School - Almás Orthodox Baroque-Rococo church - Secessionist central building of Iod-Spa - Hotel Park - international exhibition area (Novosadski Sajam) - Sajam Hotel - Vojvodina Sports and Shopping Center /Modern/ - "Telep": quarter in the western part of the city where the majority of the Hungarians live - Novi Sad University - International Open Berth - "Fisherman Island /Ribarsko ostrovo" /turistical center/ - Danube open-air swimming-pool

PETROVARADIN / PÉTERVÁRAD (11,285; 3.9 % Hung.): - Fortress /in Vauban system, "the Gibraltar of the Danube"/ - Golden Eagle Pharmacy - Triumphal Arch - St. George church /in it: the tomb of Count Koháry/ - Regional History Museum - Natural Sciences Museum - Hotel Varadin - headquarters /archades/ building /currently: restaurant/ - clock-tower - fort-fountain - Blessed Virgin Mary church

TEMERIN / TEMERIN (16,971; 56 % Hung.): - Hungarian-Serbian commune seat - important agricultural center - Roman Catholic church - Local History Museum - Cultural House /"Pál Pap People's Academy", "Károly Szirmai Hungarian Educational Association"/ - Széchen manor-house /currently: school/

BACKO GRADISTE / BÁCSÖLDVÁR (5,625; 54.5 % Hung.): - Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches - Crna Bara: ruins of an earthwork

BECEJ / ÓBECSE: - see tour no. 25

MOL / MOHOL (7,522; 63.6 % Hung.): - Szent György /St.George/ Roman Catholic church - Orthodox church

ADA / ADA (12,078; 82.9 % Hung.): commune seat - birthplace of the Hungarian linguist Gábor Szarvas (1832-1895) - Roman Catholic church

SENTA / ZENTA: - see tour no. 25

KANJIZA / MAGYARKANIZSA: - see tour no. 25

MARTONOS / MARTONOS: - see tour no. 26

28. Tour in the Baranya (Baranja), Szlavónia (Slavonija) and West-Bácska
(Baèka) region (120 or 290 km)

The settlements with underlined name in Croatia are since 1991 (August-November) under Serbian or UNPROFOR military control ("Republic Serbian Krayina"). Visit of tourists is temporarily not recommended.

CROATIA

BATINA / KISKÕSZEG (1,227; 49.5 % Hung.): former district seat - important crossing point on the Danube and the Croatian (today Serbian Krayina)-Yugoslav border - memorial of the 1944 battles - Roman Catholic church - water sports - "Green island" touristic center, fishing paradise

ZMAJEVAC / VÖRÖSMART (1,106; 81.6 % Hung.): - Hungarian village at the foot of Mountains Ban - Roman Catholic and Reformed churches

KNJEZEVI VINOGRADI / HERCEGSZÕLÕS (1,853; 18.5 % Hung.): - important viticulture, vineyards - Roman Catholic, Reformed churches

KOTLINA / SEPSE (382; 91.4 % Hung.): - small Hungarian village in the Ban Mts.

LUG / LASKÓ (784; 78.6 % Hung.): - Hungarian village - Roman Catholic and Reformed churches

VARDARAC / VÁRDARÓC (497; 74.8 % ): - Hungarian village - Roman Catholic church

BILJE / BELLYE (1,240; 4.8 % Hung.): - Roman Catholic, Reformed churches - Savoye manor-house - hunting museum - "Csingi-lingi" Inn

MECE / MECE (483; 5.8 % Hung.): - before the war Croatia's biggest agro-industrial combinate /"Bellye-Bilje AIK", the successor of the Bellye estate, founded in 1697

KOPACEVO / KOPÁCS (381; 85 % Hung.): - Hungarian village - Reformed church - "Kopácsi /Kopaèki / -meadow" (nature conservation area) - fishing-hunting sport paradise

OSIJEK / ESZÉK (104,761; 1.3 % Hung.): seat of Osijek-Baranja County, center of East Croatia - big industrial city and agricultural center - Fortress /Tvrdjava/ - St. Peter-Paul /Roman Catholic/ neo-Gothic cathedral - City Hall - County Hall - Normann palace - Pajevics manor-house - "Rétfalu / Retfala" quarter, where the majority of the Hungarians are living - synagogue - Palace of Justice - St. Jacob church - Lutheran church - Reformed church - Pedagogical Institute - Orthodox chruch - Opera and Theatre - City Museum - holiday resort on the shore of the Drava - Zoo - open-air swimming-pool - water sports

LASLOVO / SZENTLÁSZLÓ (1,298 ; 44.7 % Hung.): - before the war 1991: medieval Hungarian enclave in Slavonia - Hungarian ethnographical relics - Reformed church

KOROG / KÓRÓGY (748 ; 80.6 % Hung.): - before the war 1991: medieval Hungarian enclave in Slavonia - rich Hungarian ethnographical relics - Reformed church - remains of Fort Kórógy

VUKOVAR / VUKOVÁR (44,639 ; 1.5 % Hung.): - seat of Szerém /Srijem/ county - the town was destroyed during the 1991 Serbian siege, before that the town had major sights: Franciscan / St. Philip-Jacob/ church - Franciscan cloister and high school - Eltz manor-house - St. Rókus chapel - Orthodox church

VUKOVAR-VUCEDOL / VUKOVÁR-VUCSEDOL: - archeological findings, "Culture of Vuèedol"

OPATOVAC / APÁTI (550 ; 21 % Hung.): - Hungarian enclave on the Danube - Roman Catholic church

ILOK / ÚJLAK (6,775 ; 1.5 % Hung.): - one of the most important towns of the medieval South-Hungary, home of the famous Hungarian aristocratic family Újlaki - new Danube bridge, Croatian /today Serbian Krayina/-Yugoslav border crossing - ruins of Fort Újlaki - Franciscan Baroque church and cloister /picture of the Italian Franciscan monk, inquisitor, one of the heroes of the Belgrade/Nándorfehérvár battle 1456, Giovanni Capestrano (1386-1456)/ - Baroque Odeschalchi manor-house / currently: hotel, restaurant, museum/ - marble tombs of Mátyás and Lõrinc Újlaki - bastion-tower - neo-Gothic church - famous viticulture, vineyards

YUGOSLAVIA (SERBIA)

BACKA PALANKA / BÁCSPALÁNKA (26,780; 4.4 % Hung.): former district seat, currently commune seat on the Danube - important industrial center - Roman Catholic churches, Orthodox church, Lutheran church - Stara /Old/ Palanka (ancient Serbian) and Nova /New/ Palanka (ancient German) quarters, with unique architectural aspect - Danube promenade - to the north: "Turkish hills"

BAC / BÁCS (6,046; 8.3 %): medieval county, later district, presently commune seat - ruins of famous medieval Fort of Bács - Roman Catholic church and cloister - Orthodox church - Mosztonga creek

BOGOJEVO / GOMBOS (2,301; 69.4 % Hung.): - Hungarian enclave - important Yugoslav-Croatian (today Serbian Krayina) border crossing on the Danube, traffic junction - Szent László /St. Ladislas/ Roman Catholic church - Holy Trinity statue - Hungarian folklore traditions - remains of an earthen fortress

SONTA / SZOND (5,990; 5.5 % Hung.): - Croatian /Shokats/-Serbian village - Roman Catholic church - ruins of a Gothic church and cloister - Fernbach manor-house - alluvial forests

SVILOJEVO / SZILÁGYI (1,278; 84.1 % Hung.): - Hungarian enclave - Roman Catholic church

APATIN / APATIN (18,389; 6.1 % Hung.): former district, currently commune seat - one of the ancient centers of the Danubian Swabians, evacuated or deported in 1944 - presently important Serbian industrial town - birthplace of famous Secessionist architect Ferenc Raichle (1869-1960) - Secessionist Commune Hall - Roman Catholic church - remains of Roman fortifications - "Junakoviæ" holiday center and sanitarium /near Prigrevica/ - alluvial forests of the Danube

SOMBOR / ZOMBOR (48,993; 9.7 % Hung.): seat of the former Bács-Bodrog county, later district, currently commune seat - industrial, commercial, traffic center of Northwest Bácska (Baèka) - Baroque County Hall /inside: Ferenc Eisenhut's monumental paint called The Zenta Battle /currently: Commune Hall/ - Classicist Town Hall - Town Library - Secessionist Weidinger palace - Secessionist Conservatoire - "Turkish -tower" /currently: History Archives/ - Roman Catholic Baroque parish church - Orthodox Baroque church - Carmelite church and monastery - People's Theatre Gallery - "Mostonga" Sports Hall - "Sikáros-forest": holiday center

BEZDAN / BEZDÁN (5,472; 67.6 % Hung.): - Hungarian enclave - new bridge on the Danube, important Yugoslav-Croatian (currently Serbian Krayina) border crossing - famous spa - Roman Catholic church - memorial museum of the 1944 battle of Batina /Kiskõszeg - alluvial forests of the Danube - Danube-Tisza-Danube channel - Hungarian folk-art - basket-weaving - hunting, fishing and thermal tourism

SLOVENIA

29. Tour in the Slovenian Transmura (Prekmurje) and in the Croatian Muraköz (Medjimurje) region (130 km)

HODOS / ÕRIHODOS (326; 66.9 % Hung.): - international Slovenian-Hungarian border crossing - Hungarian Lutheran village from the Õrség region in Slovenia - Lutheran church and vicarage - mill /today distillery/

MURSKA SOBOTA / MURASZOMBAT (13,844; 1.1 % Hung.): former district, currently commune seat - traditional market-center of the historical Vend (Transmura) Region - Baroque Szapáry manor-house /currently: Regional History Museum, chapel, library/ - Szapáry /today: town/ park (9.5 hectares) - St. Michael neo-Gothic parish-church - Lutheran neo-Gothic parish-church and vicarage - Town Hall - 10 hectares of Pheasantry forest - cultural center with gallery, library

MORAVSKE TOPLICE / MARÁCTAPOLCA (666; 0.6 % Hung.): health resort of national importance - mineral water - therapeuthic center - Hotel Ajda - Hotel Termal

SELO / NAGYTÓTLAK (332; 2.4 % Hung.): - famous St. Nicholas (Sv. Nikolaj) Romanesque rotunda, a 14th century round church - Betlehem Hill: Lutheran church

PROSENJAKOVCI / PÁRTOSFALVA (222; 53.1 % Hung.): - manor-house ruins - manor-house park - Lutheran and Roman Catholic chapels

MOTVARJEVCI / SZÉCSISZENTLÁSZLÓ (230; 81.7 % Hung.): - Hungarian Reformed community - wooden headboards in the cemetery

DOBROVNIK / DOBRÓNAK (1,124; 68.9 % Hung.): - second largest Hungarian community of the Transmura Region - Szent Jakab /St. James/ Roman Catholic church - traditional Hungarian peasant houses - vineyards - vine-cellars - Lake Bukovnica (Bukovnisko jezero): holiday center, water sports

KAMOVCI / KÁMAHÁZA (125; 41.6 % Hung.): - wooden bell-tower - traditional Hungarian peasant architecture

GENTEROVCI / GÖNTÉRHÁZA (244; 83.6 % Hung.): - Roman Catholic Hungarian community - wooden bell-tower - Mary chapel

DOLGA VAS / LENDVAHOSSZÚALU (764; 59.4 % Hung.): Slovenian-Hungarian border crossing of international importance - pottery - viticulture

LENDAVA / ALSÓLENDVA (3,806; 27.9 % Hung.): former district, currently commune seat - cultural center of the Hungarians from Transmura Region - important industrial town - birthplace of the famous Hungarian sculptor György Zala (1858-1937) - Baroque Esterházy fortified palace: museum, collection of arts - Esterházy wine-cellar - Roman Catholic Baroque church - Lutheran church - Town Hall - all-season health resort of national importance, spa - Hotel Lipa - recreation center - small open-air museum: water-mill, wine-press, corn-storage etc. - Lendva creek - vintage in September

LENDAVSKE GORICE / LENDVAHEGY (507; 14 % Hung.): "Mount Lendva" - viticulture, vineyards - Holy Trinity chapel: mummy of the Hungarian Captain Mihály Hadik killed by Turks in 1603 /panoramic view/ - "Újtamás, Novi Toma" (New Thomas): group of wine-cellars, characteristic folk architecture

CENTIBA / CSENTE (785; 63.4 % Hung.): - Hungarian village on the southern slopes of Mount Lendva - viticulture - Roman Catholic church - Florian column - Villa Anna - Hungarian peasant architecture

PETISOVCI / PETESHÁZA (891; 45.3 % Hung.): - important Slovenian-Croatian border crossing near the Mura river - Roman Catholic church - thermal spa - important oil production, derrick

CROATIA

CAKOVEC / CSÁKTORNYA (15,999; 0.2 % Hung.): - seat of Medjimurje /Muraköz county - Zrinski / Zrínyi fortress: museum

Karoly Kocsis and Eszter Kocsis-Hodosi : Hungarian Minorities in the Carpathian Basin