Opusztaszer Attractions

In the region between the Danube and Tisza rivers, 28km (17mi.) north of Szeged and 10km (61/4mi.) east of the E5 Highway, lies the little town of Ópusztaszer. According to the ancient chronicles of Hungarian history written by the unnamed scribe "Anonymus", it was here that the seven tribal chiefs of the invading Magyars, headed by their army commander Prince Árpád, held their first legislative national assembly and divided the newly conquered country up into settlements. In 1945 a second meeting to apportion land was held in this spot, when a symbolic act removed large tracts of land from the great landowners, divided them up and parceled them out among small farmers.