Osztopán ( hr, Stupan) is a village in
Somogy 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 comes from the
Slavic ''Stupan''
derived from the
Proto-Slavic
Proto-Slavic (abbreviated PSl., PS.; also called Common Slavic or Common Slavonic) is the Attested language, unattested, linguistic reconstruction, reconstructed proto-language of all Slavic languages. It represents Slavic speech approximately ...
stem ''stǫp-'' with several meanings and possible etymologies (i.e. ''stǫpa/stupa'':
trapping pit
Trapping pits are deep pits dug into the ground, or built from stone, in order to trap animals.
European rock drawings and cave paintings reveal that red deer (''Cervus elaphus'') and elk/moose (''Alces alces'') were hunted since the Stone Age ...
,
see also the etymology of
Stupava).
History
According to ''László Szita'' the settlement was completely Hungarian in the 18th century.
László Szita : Somogy megyei nemzetiségek településtörténete a XVIII-XIX. században - Somogyi Almanach 52. (Kaposvár, 1993)
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Highway bridge bombed by 97th BG on 30 June 1944 when primary target Blechammer oil refinery was overcast.
Culture
The Hungarian folk song Osztopáni malomárok was collected in Osztopán in 1949 by ''Ferenc Gönczi''.
References
External links
Street map (Hungarian)
Populated places in Somogy County
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