Place:Kossuth, Alcorn, Mississippi, United States

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NameKossuth
Alt namesNew Hopesource: USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS28008176
TypeVillage
Coordinates34.874°N 88.644°W
Located inAlcorn, Mississippi, United States
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Kossuth is a village in Alcorn County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 209 at the 2010 census.

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Kossuth, located about southwest of Corinth, was founded in the 1840s as "New Hope". In 1852, the town changed its name to Kossuth in honor of Lajos Kossuth, a Hungarian revolutionary hero who led the democratic, anti-Habsburg Hungarian Revolution of 1848.

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