Beloiannisz ( el, Μπελογιάννης) is a village in Fejér county,

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. It was founded by

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Greek refugees who left

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after the

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, and was named after

Nikos Beloyannis Nikos Beloyannis ( el, Νίκος Μπελογιάννης; 1915 – 30 March 1952) was a Greek resistance leader and leading cadre of the Greek Communist Party. Biography Beloyannis was born in Amaliada (Peloponnese, Greece) in 1915. He cam ...

(Beloiannisz is the Hungarian spelling of his name).

Location

Beloiannisz is close to the railway station of

Iváncsa Iváncsa is a village in Fejér 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 northeas ...

, which is on the

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– Pusztaszabolcs railway line. On paved road the village can be reached through a long access road which links the village to the Iváncsa–

Besnyő Besnyő is a village in Dunaújváros District of Fejér County in 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 ...

road. Most of the buses connecting Besnyő and Dunaújváros stop at the village, but the railway plays a more important role.

History

The village is among the newest in the county; its construction was started on May 6, 1950. The village was built by volunteers; within a short time, 418 houses, a school, a kindergarten, a library, a community hall, a doctor's office and a town hall were built. On April 3, 1952 the village (previously called ''Görögfalva'', "Greeks' Village") took the name of

, the

leader and resistance fighter, who had been executed 4 days earlier in Greece. The village had 1850 inhabitants then. Starting in 1974, several Greeks left the village and went back to Greece, but many of them (especially the younger people) stayed in Hungary. Now the majority of the population works in the nearby cities of

, Százhalombatta and Dunaújváros. Many people still maintain their Greek identity. According to the 2001

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it had 1,185 inhabitants, 23.4% of them considered themselves Greek, 61.4% Hungarian, 0,3%

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, 5.7%

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. A

church was built in 1996.

Tourist sights

church (1996) * Village library; main square

References

External links

Community of Beloiannisz Homepage

Community of Beloiannisz Homepage
{{DEFAULTSORT:Beloiannisz Populated places in Fejér County Hungarian people of Greek descent Greek diaspora in Europe