According to a tradesman, Szeged was placed on the map in because of its paprika. The paprika originated in Middle America. In Hungary it became acclimatized in the second half of the 16th century, but was used as a grocery only in the second half of the 19th century. Professionalism, diligence, and the conjecture made the paprika producers the most bourgeois layer of society in Szeged.

Szentes was a county town at the beginning of the 20th century. In 1930, more than one third of its population lived in homestead. The homesteads of Szentes were open-air type farming estates.

The local railways enmeshed the area of the Great Plane in 1890 but there was non in the area between Tisza and the Danube. To fill this deficiency the minister of transport initiated the building of roads in 1893. Three roads were built. One of them was the 301 kms long road of Baja-Félegyháza-Csongrád- Békéscsaba-Erdőhegy.