Solt

Solt lies near the Danube on the Hungarian plain. A road from Solt to Dunapataj was mentioned in a charter dated 1145, and the settlement was described as a market town in 1384. The nearby site of Tétel, treated separately from Solt in written records, had a church in the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries and was abandoned during the Ottoman period.

Ottoman rule disrupted Solt's earlier prosperity, and it was subsequently described as a village. Its Danube crossing remained important: during Rákóczi's War of Independence, insurgents built an earthwork to protect it. Solt regained market-town status in 1715. A late eighteenth-century description records grain, vineyards, livestock and houses raised against floods.