Olasz ( hr, Olas; german: Ahlaß) is a

village A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...

and

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( hu, község) 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 the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia a ...

Etymology

The name of the village is ultimately a Hungarianised term derived from the

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word ''

walha ''Walhaz'' is a reconstructed Proto-Germanic word meaning 'foreigner', or more specifically 'Roman', 'Romance-speaker' or '(romanized) Celt', and survives in English as 'Welsh'. The term was used by the ancient Germanic peoples to describe inha ...

'' which Hungarians otherwise use as a root for their exonym of

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(''Olaszország'').

Geography

Olasz is located in Baranya County, about 20 kilometers southeast of Pécs and about 10 kilometers northwest of

Bóly Bóly (german: Bohl; hr, Boja) is a town in Baranya County, Hungary. Until the end of World War II, the Inhabitants was Danube Swabians, also called locally as ''Stifolder'', because there Ancestors once came at the 17th century and 18th century ...

. The municipality lies within the Southern Transdanubia Region of Hungary. It previously was part of the

Mohács Subregion Mohács (; Croatian and Bunjevac: ''Mohač''; german: Mohatsch; sr, Мохач; tr, Mohaç) is a town in Baranya County, Hungary, on the right bank of the Danube. Etymology The name probably comes from the Slavic ''*Mъchačь'',''*Mocháč'': ...

but during the creation of districts in 2013, it became part of

Bóly District Bóly ( hu, Bólyi járás) is a district in central-eastern part of Baranya County. ''Bóly'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Southern Transdanubia Statistical Region. Geography Bó ...

Demographics

During the census of 2011, the population was 627. The vast majority of the population claimed Hungarian ethnicity (87.4%), though 29% also claimed

ethnicity and 8.8% claimed Croatian ethnicity, and the municipality has a German and Croatian local minority self-government. Other ethnicities claimed included

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(1.4%),

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* * * Old Serbian (disambiguat ...

(0.5%) and Other (1.3%). 12.4% did not wish to answer. In terms of religious practice, 62.3% reported to be

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, 3.5%

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, 11.5% of no religious affiliation and 21.5% did not wish to answer.

Transport

The closest railway station is in

, 10 kilometers to the southeast.

References

External links

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