Padé

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Padej

Excavation finds show that Padé is a settlement from the age of the Árpád dynasty. In the fields, where the stream Harangod (today Aranka) flowed into Lake Morotva, stood the village of Harangod in the Middle Ages. In those times, even before the village was founded, it was called the Cape of Harangod, the base of Harangod. In 1784, they started draining the marshland around the settlement in order to gain cropland, and due to the lack of workers, some tobacco growing Hungarians from around Szeged were settled there, just like later, in 1814 and 1839. On these occasions, a new Hungarian settlement, Újpadé, later called Magyarpadé, was built next to Szerb-Padé. On 1 January 1924, the two villages were united.