Puszta

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Typicall draw well in the Puszta
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Typicall draw well in the Puszta

Puszta is a concept often associated with Hungarian traditional landscape. It means "steppe", a barren land, wilderness, a grassy kind of semi-desert. With a capital letter and a definite article, it refers to flat parts of the Alföld (the Great Hungarian Plain). It is originally inhabited by cowherds, shepherds, and horseherds.

The name comes from an adjective of the same form, meaning "bare, empty, bereft".

It may also refer to a remote farm surrounded by fields and in this sense it is part of some placenames.

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