Small region-Apaj

Alsónémedi – Apaj – Áporka – Bugyi – Délegyháza – Dömsöd – Dunaharaszti – Dunavarsány – Halásztelek
Kiskunlacháza – Kulcs – Lórév – Majosháza – Makád – Rácalmás – Ráckeve – Szigetbecse – Szigetcsép
Szigethalom – Szigetszentmárton – Szigetszentmiklós – Szigetújfalu – Taksony – Tököl

Apaj

The village itself is located at the entrance of Kiskunság National Park, only 50 km to the south of Budapest.  The village can be reached from the main road No 51 from the direction of either Kiskunlacháza or Dömsöd. The Budapest-Kelebia railway goes through Apaj.  The Kunság-Volán’s coach service from Tass to Budapest goes through Apaj and the village has a direct bus service to Dömsöd, Kiskunlacháza and Kunszentmiklós too.

Apaj Local Government: Fő square 2. 2345 Apaj
Tel.: (24) 408-112, Fax: (24) 408-173
web: www.apaj.hu

The name of Apaj stems from a Hungarian word. The name itself contains the noun “apa” (father) and was given a “j”, which is the old version of the possessive case. A wide range of inhabitants from the stone age had lived here before the Settlement of the Magyars in Hungary. At first the name of the village, “Opoy”, was mentioned in a document from 1291. Apaj with a part of Dömsöd was the domain of a bride who was to become the queen. Later this area became the property of the Rozgony dynasty. During the Turkish rule, which lasted 150 years, the land was excessively damaged.  After the expulsion of the Turks it became the land of the Bosnyák family, but after 1848-1849, the war of independence, it was seized by the Prince Philip Saxon Choburg Gatha.  The castle in the centre of the estate functioned as a finance office. There was no church in Apaj, but there was great devotion to religious education.  It was required to go to church on every Sunday and on holidays, when the people left for Dömsöd on carts and on spring-carriages. A notable event was on December 5, 1882, when the Budapest-Kunszentmiklós-Kelebia railway was inaugurated.