Kiskunság: a major region between Danube and the Tisza, lying between the southern outskirts of Budapest and Szeged, named after the Cumans who settled here. Consisting of a series of market towns of the szálláskertes settlement type (the farms and farm buildings were on strips of land surrounding the settlement proper, or even farther off), it had a population typically engaged in extensive animal husbandry; in more recent centuries, there has been a switch to more intensive forms of agriculture such as market gardening, and to farming on tanyas, or farmsteads. Culturally speaking, the Kiskunság peasantry has always been on a par with the middle class.