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by István Molnár, 16 March 2001
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Zamárdi is a 'large village' in Somogy County in Hungary near
to Town of Siófok (10 km west) on
the southern beach of the Lake Balaton. The settlement has got
2.312 inhabitants (1990 census), all of them are Hungarians.
Neighbouring settlements are: Szántód, Kőröshegy,
Balatonendréd villages and Siófok town, Balatonfüred, Csopak
and Tihany villages in the northern part of the lake.
"The area of Zamárdi was inhabited already in the Copper,
Bronze and Iron Age, and tracks of the Celts and ancient Romans
have also been found. A very extensive archeology find has been
discovered from the Avarian cemetery which was probably one of
the largest and richest burial grounds in the Carpathian Basin.
(...) The name of Zamárdi is mentioned in written documents of
the era, at first in a certificate dated 1082, then in the
authentic certificate of King Stephen the Third dated 1171. (...)
In the 16th century, the Turkish army totally destructed (...)
the villages, and the area was abandoned for a very long time.
Our village was revived by Vildebald Grassó and his successor,
Ágoston Lécs, both of them abbots of Tihany in the thirties of
the 18th century."
In 1910 Zamárdi was a village in the Tab district of Somogy
County of the Kingdom of Hungary. Number of its inhab