Mány (german: Maan) is a town in Hungary, located in the north-east of

Fejér County Fejér ( hu, Fejér megye, ) is an administrative county (comitatus or megye) in Central Hungary. It lies on the west bank of the river Danube and nearly touches the eastern shore of Lake Balaton. It shares borders with the Hungarian counties V ...

in the Zsámbéki Basin.

History

In the Middle Ages Mány was in Esztergom county. Mány and Örs were completely destroyed in the first decades of the Turkish occupation. From 1611 there was a

Batthyány The House of Batthyány () is the name of an ancient and distinguished Hungarian Magnate family. Members of this family bear the title Count/Countess ( Graf/Gräfin) Batthyány von Német-Ujvar respectively, while the title of Prince (Fürst) vo ...

estate, but in 1680

family pledged their estates in Mány and

Bicske Bicske (; la, Lusomana or ) is a town in Fejér County, Hungary. Its name is also spelled ''Bykche'', ''Biccke'', ''Bykcze'', ''Biczke'', and ''Bitske''. It is around west of Budapest. Its administration has undergone many changes; it has been a ...

. In 1703 Mány was moved to

Archaeology

In August 2022, archaeologists from the Szent István Király Múzeum announced the discovery of a

Bronze Age The Bronze Age is a historic period, lasting approximately from 3300 BC to 1200 BC, characterized by the use of bronze, the presence of writing in some areas, and other early features of urban civilization. The Bronze Age is the second pri ...

cemetery A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite or graveyard is a place where the remains of dead people are buried or otherwise interred. The word ''cemetery'' (from Greek , "sleeping place") implies that the land is specifically designated as a buri ...

with 8 burials. One of the burials contained the remains of an outstanding young woman buried with small ceramic pots and 38 adorned gold and bronze decorative jewelry, such as gold rings, torcs, spiral shaped armlets, a gold hair ring.

Relations

Mány's German sister city is Leimen.

References

External links

Street map

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Populated places in Fejér County Hungarian German communities {{Fejer-geo-stub