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The Sunken Bodrog

Bački Monoštor1717

In 1717 a ninety-year-old witness spoke of towers and buildings already being taken by the Danube.

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A man known as Miklenda, born in Kolut, testified to a commission in 1717 about remnants of old Bodrog in the Danube landscape. Later retellings speak of towers, churches and walls gradually erased by water. The town existed historically, but its exact location remains unresolved, so the atlas must not invent a precise point.

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