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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
<www.c3.hu/~ahalom/Cimerz.jpg>.
Dov Gutterman, 28 December 1998
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,
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 <www.morahalom.hu>.
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 t
