Szellő () is a village in Baranya county,

Pécsvárad District Pécsvárad () is a district in north-eastern part of Baranya County, Hungary. '' Pécsvárad'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is situated. The district is in the Southern Transdanubia Statistical Region. Geography Pécsv� ...

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Surroundings

It is located south of

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, next to the Karasica River. Neighboring settlements include Erzsébet (to the north),

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(to the northeast), Maráza to the east,

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to the southeast,

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to the south, and

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to the southwest. Szellő lies on Hungarian road 5608 between

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and Pécsvárad.

History

Szellő and its surroundings were already inhabited by the time of the

Avar Khaganate The Pannonian Avars ( ) were an alliance of several groups of Eurasian nomads of various origins. The peoples were also known as the Obri in the chronicles of the Rus' people, Rus, the Abaroi or Varchonitai (), or Pseudo-Avars in Byzantine Empi ...

, in the

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. The town was mentioned for the first time in a

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list in 1291. The village was one of the stops on the wine trading route between

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and Pécsvárad. The village was founded next to the Karasica, but later moved to higher ground due to flooding. The town continued under the

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in the 16th century, although lost population. In the

18th century The 18th century lasted from 1 January 1701 (represented by the Roman numerals MDCCI) to 31 December 1800 (MDCCC). During the 18th century, elements of Enlightenment thinking culminated in the Atlantic Revolutions. Revolutions began to ch ...

, German settlers arrived in the dwindling settlement, and the development of the village was boosted by their advanced agricultural techniques. In the 1910 census, the settlement had 417 inhabitants. Of these, 246 were Hungarians, 171 were Germans, of which 410 were Roman Catholics and 6 were Jewish. During the

Czechoslovak–Hungarian population exchange The Czechoslovak–Hungarian population exchange was the exchange of inhabitants between Czechoslovakia and Hungary after World War II. Between 45,000 and 120,000 Hungarians were forcibly transferred from Czechoslovakia to Hungary, and their propert ...

of 1945, some townspeople were displaced by Hungarians from

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Demography

During the 2011 census, 97.7% of residents identified themselves as Hungarian, 0.8% as Gypsy, 4.7% as German, and 1.6% as Ukrainian. The religious distribution was as follows: Roman Catholic 54.7%, Reformed 3.1%, Lutheran 3.9%, Greek Catholic 0.8%, non-denominational 14.8% (21.9% did not declare). In 2022, 87.6% of the population identified themselves as Hungarian, 2.7% as German, 0.9% as Gypsy, 0.9% as Croatian, and 2.7% as other, non-national nationalities. According to their religion, 37.2% were Roman Catholic, 3.5% Reformed, 3.5% Lutheran, 0.9% other Christian, 0.9% other Catholic, 11.5% non-denominational. Szellő emlékmű.JPG, A monument to German people interned in the Soviet Union Szellő, utcarészlet.jpg, Street detail

References

External links

Website of Szellő municipality
{{DEFAULTSORT:Szello Populated places in Baranya County