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Grábóc (, sr, Грабовац, Grabovac) is a village in
Tolna County Tolna ( hu, Tolna megye, ; german: Komitat Tolnau) is an administrative county (Comitatus (Kingdom of Hungary), comitatus or megye) in present Hungary as it was of the former Kingdom of Hungary. It lies in central Hungary, on the west bank of the ...
, Hungary.


History

In the 1300s, the village was already home to a Benedictine church and monastery. Today, its ruins can be found to the northwest of the Serb cemetery. In the 1580s, a large group of Serbs left behind a Drougoubitai monastery, and arrived in Grábóc, feeling from Turkish forces. Initially, the Serbs only construted a wooden church, but after receiving permission from the Turkish pasha in Buda, they built a stone church in 1587. In 1667, the Turks ransacked the monastery, and by 1703, the village was completely depopulated. Following
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, Serbian villagers and Orthodox monks returned to the village, and in 1736, a new
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was built, which still stands today. In the 18th century,
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settled into the village alongside the existing Serbian population. These Catholic Germans built their first chapel in 1765, which then expanded into a church in 1795. According to the 1789 census, Germans outnumbered Serbs in the village. In the 19th and 20th centuries, the Serbian population slowly dwindled. Following the Second World War, the village's German population (which was its majority) was deported en masse, and replaced with
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people from Transylvania. Under the communist regime, due to a strict policy of state atheism, the
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was exiled to Grábóc. The orthodox monastery remained functional until the death of its last monk in 1974, after which point the building was converted into social housing. in 1994, the building was transferred back to the Serbian Orthodox Church, and it is now home to
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Demographics

As of 2022, the town in 82.8% Hungarian, 1.8%
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, and 1.8%
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* * * Old Serbian (disambiguat ...
. 29% of the villagers are Roman Catholic, 3%
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, 1.8% Serbian Orthodox, and 29.6%
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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Graboc Populated places in Tolna County Serb communities in Hungary