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Bóly (; ) is a town in
Baranya County Baranya (, ; German language, German:Croatian language, Croatian:'' Baranjska županija'') is a Counties of Hungary, county () in southern Hungary. It is part of the Southern Transdanubia statistical region and the historical Baranya (region), B ...
,
Hungary Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning much of the Pannonian Basin, 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 and ...
. Today Hungarian, the town was historically home to a large Danube Swabian population.


History

Until the end of World War II, the town's inhabitants were Danube Swabians, also locally known as ''Stifolder'', because their ancestors arrived in the 17th and 18th centuries from the German district of Fulda. Most of the former German settlers were expelled to
Allied-occupied Germany The entirety of Germany was occupied and administered by the Allies of World War II, from the Berlin Declaration on 5 June 1945 to the establishment of West Germany on 23 May 1949. Unlike occupied Japan, Nazi Germany was stripped of its sov ...
and
Allied-occupied Austria Austria was occupied by the Allies of World War II, Allies and declared independence from Nazi Germany on 27 April 1945 (confirmed by the Berlin Declaration (1945), Berlin Declaration for Germany on 5 June 1945), as a result of the Vienna offen ...
in 1945–1948, under the Potsdam Agreement. Few
Germans Germans (, ) are the natives or inhabitants of Germany, or sometimes more broadly any people who are of German descent or native speakers of the German language. The Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany, constitution of Germany, imple ...
remain today. The majority of the modern population are the descendants of Hungarians from the Czechoslovak–Hungarian population exchange. They occupied the houses of the former Danube Swabian inhabitants.


Demographics

As of 2022, the town was 89.5% Hungarian, 16.6% German, 0.8% Croatian, and 1.8% of non-European origin. The population was 44.6%
Roman Catholic The Catholic Church (), also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.27 to 1.41 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2025. It is among the world's oldest and largest international institut ...
, and 7.4% Reformed.


Twin towns – sister cities

Bóly is twinned with: * Semriach, Austria * Heroldsberg, Germany * Cernat, Romania * Neded, Slovakia


Sports

The local sports team is called Bólyi SE.


References


External links

* in Hungarian, English and German Populated places in Baranya County Hungarian German communities {{Baranya-geo-stub