Bóly (; ) is a town in
Baranya County
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,
Hungary
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. 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
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and
Allied-occupied Austria
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in 1945–1948, under the
Potsdam Agreement.
Few
Germans
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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
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, 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
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