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The
City
Park
(Hungarian:
Városliget;
German:
Stadtwäldchen)
is
a
public
park
close
to
the
centre
of
Budapest,
Hungary.
It
is
a
0.9-by-0.6-mile
(1,400
by
970
m)
rectangle,
with
an
area
of
302
acres
(1.2
km2),
located
in
District
XIV
of
Budapest,
between
Hungária
körút,
Ajtósi
Dürer
sor,
Vágány
utca
and
Dózsa
György
út.
Its
main
entrance
is
at
Heroes'
Square
(Hősök
tere),
one
of
Hungary's
World
Heritage
sites.
Name
The
area
was
formerly
called
Ökör-dűlő,
meaning
"Oxmeadow".
The
first
mention
of
the
name
comes
from
1241
in
the
archaic
form,
Ukurföld.
In
the
18th
century,
the
area
was
called
Ochsenried
in
German.
Around
1800
the
official
name
was
changed
to
Batthyány-erdő
(Batthyány
Forest)
after
its
tenants,
the
Batthyány
family.
The
first
trees
and
planified
walkways
were
established
in
1751
and
after
the
public
park
was
created
in
the
first
decades
of
the
19th
century
the
present-day
name,
Városliget
(and
its
German
version,
Stadtwäldchen,
lit.:
"little
city
forest")
was
accepted
and
it
became
one
of
the
first
public
parks
in
the
world.
Excerpt
from
Wikipedia
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