Szabadka - Encyclopedia Britannica 1911

GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES

SZABADKA (Ger. Maria-Theresiopel), a town of Hungary, in the county of Bacs-Bodrog, 109 m. S.S.E. of Budapest by rail. Pop. (1900), 81,464. It is situated in the great Hungarian plain between the Danube and the Theiss, and is the centre of an immense agricultural district. To the town belongs a large territory (369 sq. m.) of the adjoining Puszta Telecska, where large herds of cattle are reared. In this territory is situated Lake Palics, a favourite watering-place and summer resort.