Somogysimonyi is a village in

Somogy County Somogy ( hu, Somogy megye, ; hr, Šomođska županija; sl, Šomodska županija, german: Komitat Schomodei) is an administrative county (comitatus or ''megye'') in present Hungary, and also in the former Kingdom of Hungary. Somogy County lies ...

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. It incorporates the earlier separated villages of ''Gardos-puszta'', ''Irma-puszta'' and ''Angyalvár-telep''.

Geography

It lies southwest of

Marcali Marcali (german: Martzal) is a town in Somogy County, Hungary, and the seat of Marcali District. The settlement is part of the Balatonboglár wine region. Geography It lies 14 km south of Lake Balaton, next to the main road 68 and the '' S ...

at the border between Somogy and

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. It is separated from Nemesvid by the ''Forest of Gödörberk'' which consists mostly of oak trees. There are fields of May bells and

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in the forest.

Fallow deer ''Dama'' is a genus of deer in the subfamily Cervinae, commonly referred to as fallow deer. Name The name fallow is derived from the deer's pale brown colour. The Latin word ''dāma'' or ''damma'', used for roe deer, gazelles, and antelopes ...

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and

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as well as

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polecats Polecat is a common name for several mustelid species in the order Carnivora and subfamilies Ictonychinae and Mustelinae. Polecats do not form a single taxonomic rank (i.e. clade). The name is applied to several species with broad similaritie ...

and

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live there.

History

Somogysimonyi was earlier known as ''Simonyi'' and is since the 14th century inhabited. The village was first mentioned in the papal tithe register between 1332 and 1337. The ''Chernel'' family of Szentjakab owned the settlement in 1481. It perished during the Turkish occupation. It was already uninhabited according to the 1550 tax register. Its owner at the beginning of the 18th century was ''Pál Festetics'' and later from the 20th century the

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. It had its own primary school. In 1932 a new Roman Catholic Church was built.

Gardos-puszta

''Gardos-puszta'' was first mentioned in the papal

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register between 1332 and 1337 and had its own parish. It was owned by the ''Kanizsai'' family and was called as ''Gardus'' in 1395, then ''László Török'' acquired it in 1439, but he pawned it to ''András Csapi'' in 1464. Later it was in the hands of ''János Bornemissza de Tolna'' deputy treasurer. ''Ferenc Török'' owned it in 1550 but it was already empty. Between 1701 and 1703 it was in the hand of ''Miklós Ropoli'' and then from 1726 of the

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Main sights

* Roman Catholic church - built in 1932 with a plaque remembering on those who died in the

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and

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External links

Street map (Hungarian)

References

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