Bóly (German: Bohl; Croatian: Boja) is a town in Baranya County, Hungary. Today Hungarian, the town was historically home to a large Danube Swabian population.
Bóly
Bohl | |
|---|---|
 Palace | |
 Flag  Coat of arms | |
  Bóly Location of Bóly | |
| Coordinates: 45°58′02″N 18°31′06″E / 45.96729°N 18.51825°E | |
| Country |  Hungary |
| County | Baranya |
| District | Bóly |
| Area | |
• Total | 25.44 km2 (9.82 sq mi) |
| Population (2022)[1] | |
• Total | 3,819 |
| • Density | 150.1/km2 (388.8/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Postal code | 7754 |
| Area code | (+36) 69 |
| Geocode | 33154 |
| Website | telepules |
History
editUntil the end of World War II, the town's inhabitants were Danube Swabians, also locally known as Stifolder, because their ancestors arrived in the 17th and 18th centuries from the German district of Fulda.[2] Most of the former German settlers were expelled to Allied-occupied Germany and Allied-occupied Austria in 1945–1948, under the Potsdam Agreement.[3]
Few Germans remain today. The majority of the modern population are the descendants of Hungarians from the Czechoslovak–Hungarian population exchange. They occupied the houses of the former Danube Swabian inhabitants.
Demographics
editTwin towns – sister cities
editBóly is twinned with:
Semriach, Austria
Heroldsberg, Germany
Cernat, Romania
Neded, Slovakia
Sports
editThe local sports team is called Bólyi SE.
References
edit- 1 2 "Detailed Gazetteer of Hungary". Hungarian Central Statistics Office. Retrieved 18 November 2022.
- ↑ "Die Stiffoller und der Stiffolde" (PDF). feked.hu (in German). Retrieved 7 September 2023.
- ↑ "Die Vertreibung – Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Ungarn".
- ↑ "Magyarország helységnévtára". www.ksh.hu. Retrieved 10 June 2024.
External links
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- Official website in Hungarian, English and German
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