Tállya is a

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in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county, Northern Hungary, 45 kilometres from county seat

Miskolc Miskolc ( , , ; Czech language, Czech and sk, Miškovec; german: Mischkolz; yi, script=Latn, Mishkoltz; ro, Mișcolț) is a city in northeastern Hungary, known for its heavy industry. With a population of 161,265 (1 Jan 2014) Miskolc is the ...

, in the famous

Tokaj-Hegyalja Tokaj wine region ( hu, Tokaji borvidék sk, Vinohradnícka oblasť Tokaj) or Tokaj-Hegyalja wine region (short ''Tokaj-Hegyalja'' or ''Hegyalja'') is a historical wine region located in northeastern Hungary and southeastern Slovakia. It is also ...

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district.

Geography

Tállya is located at . According to the 2001

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the village has a total area of .

Demographics

As of the census of 2001, there were 2205 people residing in the village; 98.4% Magyars, 1.3% Romani, and 0.3% other. The population density was 58/km². There were 1004 housing units at an average density of 26.44/km².

History

The area has been inhabited since ancient times. The village was first mentioned in the 13th century. According to some sources the area was settled by Walloon settlers, who brought viticulture to the area; the name of the village possibly comes from the French word ''taille'' (meaning "cutting", referring that the tres of forests on the hills had to be cut so that vine can grow there). Tállya soon became the most important village of the Tokaj-Hegyalja wine district. A letter by Bishop Andrew from 1272 mentions that after the Mongol invasion (1241–42) Italians settled down in the area. Tállya also had a castle by then, which has been destroyed since then, but some of the ruins still can be seen. From 1584 Tállya's

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pastor was

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, who was the first to translate the

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to Hungarian. In the 17th century Tállya was already mentioned as a town, surrounded by a

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and a moat. In 1631 Ferdinand II gave the town right to hold a market and exempted its citizens from taxes. In 1683

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and his supporters met in Tállya during his fight to free Hungary from Habsburg rule; after the freedom fight the imperial troops pillaged the area, which led to the Hegyalja uprising in 1697. In a census from the mid-1780s Tállya was the largest town of

Zemplén county Zemplén ( hu, Zemplén, sk, Zemplín, german: Semplin, Semmlin, la, Zemplinum) was an administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. The northern part of its territory is now situated in eastern Slovakia ( Zemplín region), while ...

with a population of 4388. The quick development of the town was mostly due to its vineyards and its hospitality. Anyone who wanted to settle down in Tállya was exempt from paying taxes for 12 years if he plants a vineyard. Still Tállya lost its town rights in 1896 because it couldn't afford paying the expenses of being a town. In 1928 a pyroxene and

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mine was opened. World War I and II claimed the lives of 110 and 87 Tállya soldiers, respectively. Soviet troops occupied the village on December 14, 1944. After the war the population started to decrease mostly because the village's distance from main roads, the lack of markets for wine, the decreasing price of wine, and the Socialist régime's industrial politics which tended to favor the major cities over smaller settlements. By 1980 Tállya had only 2815 residents.

Sport

The

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club, Tállya KSE, is based in Tállya.

Gallery

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Trivia

* Prince

Francis II Rákóczi Francis II Rákóczi ( hu, II. Rákóczi Ferenc, ; 27 March 1676 – 8 April 1735) was a Hungarian nobleman and leader of Rákóczi's War of Independence against the Habsburgs in 1703–11 as the prince ( hu, fejedelem) of the Estates Confeder ...

presented

Louis XIV of France , house = Bourbon , father = Louis XIII , mother = Anne of Austria , birth_date = , birth_place = Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France , death_date = , death_place = Palace of ...

with Tállya wine. The king allegedly said: "This is the king of wines, the wine of kings!" * Another legend says that at the

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a Hungarian bishop gave a taste of Tállya wine to Pope Pius IV, who said ''Summum pontificem talia vina decent'' – a

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word play meaning "Tállya wine / This kind of wine is worthy to be on His Holiness' table!" * It has been said that Lajos Kossuth was baptized in Tállya in 1802, since his hometown Monok didn't have a

church. Recently this proved to be only a legend. * Tállya is also said to be the geometrical centre of Europe, but since many other places claim this distinction, it seem to depend on what countries and areas one counts as Europeans.

References

External links

Lavotta Guest House
(in Hungarian, English, German)
Map of the village

Official site
(Hungarian only) {{DEFAULTSORT:Tallya Populated places in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County