Bátorliget

Bátorliget (before 1975: Aporliget)^[1] is a village in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county, in the Northern Great Plain region of eastern Hungary.

Bátorliget
Coat of arms
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Coordinates: 47°45′45″N 22°16′21″E
Country	Hungary
County	Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg
Area
• Total	33.30 km2 (12.86 sq mi)
Population  (2015)
• Total	669
• Density	20/km2 (52/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	4343
Area code	42

The village (then named Aporliget) was the last one to be electrified in the country, on August 20, 1963, thus completing the 75-year-long process of electrification (which incidentally started in a nearby town, Mátészalka, in 1888).^[2]

Geography

It covers an area of 33.30 km² (13 sq mi) and has a population of 669 people (2015).

Nearby is Bátorliget Pasture NCA (Nature Conservation Area).^[3]

References

1. Bátorliget (in Hungarian)
2. "MVM cégtörténet". Archived from the original on 2009-09-19. Retrieved 2009-06-06.
3. "Bátorliget Pasture NCA". hnp.hu. Retrieved 26 August 2015.