Ág (, ) is a village () in northern Baranya County, Hegyhát District, in southern Hungary. Its population at the 2011 Census was 177. Until the end of World War II, the majority of the Inhabitants was Protestant Danube Swabians, Mostly of the former German Settlers was expelled to Allied-occupied Germany and

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in 1945–1948, about the

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. Only a few Germans of Hungary live there, the majority today are the descendants of Hungarians from the Czechoslovak–Hungarian population exchange. They got the houses of the former Danube Swabians Inhabitants.

Local government

The village is governed by a mayor with a four-person council. The local government of the village operates a

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with the nearby localities of

Gerényes Gerényes is a village in Baranya county, Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to th ...

Kisvaszar Kisvaszar is a village in Baranya county, Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northea ...

Tarrós Tarrós () is a village () in Baranya county, Hungary. Its population at the 2011 census was 129. Local government The village is governed by a mayor with a four-person council. The local government of the village operates a joint council of ...

Tékes Tékes () is a village () in Hegyhát District, northern Baranya County, Baranya county, in the Southern Transdanubia region of Hungary. Its population at the 2011 Census of Hungary, 2011 census was 248. Geography The village is located at 46 ...

and

Vásárosdombó Vásárosdombó is a village in Baranya county, Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the ...

. Ág maintains a

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, but the seat of the joint council is in Vásárosdombó. As of the election of 2019, the village also has a local minority self-government for its

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community, with three elected representatives.

Transportation

The village is a

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community, with only one access road connecting it to Road 6546 via nearby village

Railway

* Vásárosdombó train station, to the west of the village off Road 6546. The station is on the Pusztaszabolcs–Pécs railway line and is operated by

MÁV Hungarian State Railways ( hu, Magyar Államvasutak, MÁV) is the Hungarian national railway company, with divisions "MÁV START Zrt." (passenger transport), "MÁV-Gépészet Zrt." (maintenance), "MÁV-Trakció Zrt." and "MÁV Cargo Zrt" (freig ...

Road

* Road 6546 connects the village to

to the west and Komló to the south. * Main road 611, a north–south road accessible in

, connects the village to its district seat

Sásd Sásd () is a town in Baranya county, Hungary. The total population of Sásd in 2015 was 3094. Twin towns – sister cities Sásd is twinned with: * Westhausen, Germany * Izvoru Crișului, Romania * Raaba, Austria * Supino, Italy * Pierre ...

and the town of Dombóvár.

External links

Street map

OpenStreetMap

References

Populated places in Baranya County {{Baranya-geo-stub