Gyékényes () is a village in
Somogy county,
Hungary
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next to the
Croatia
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n border. Its train station serves as an important crossing point into Croatia.
History
Gyékényes and its surroundings were already inhabited in the time of the
Roman Empire
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; an excavation in 1971 found several artifacts from this time period.
The village was first mentioned in written documents in 1380. In this era, possession of the village was shared between several
Magyar families. It was then under
Turkish rule from 1600 until 1677.
Gyékényes was held by the
Zichy family
The House of Zichy (of Zich and Vázsonykő) is the name of an ancient Magyar family of the Hungarian nobility, conspicuous in Hungarian history from the latter part of the 13th century onwards.
History
The first authentic ancestor of the Zic ...
1835 until 1945.
Population and demographics
In 2017, the population of Gyékényes was 994. In 2011, a census found that 89.9% of its residents were Hungarian, 6.3% were Gypsies, 1.5% German, and 0.4% Croatian. The same census found that 62.4% of residents were Roman Catholic, 13.8% Evangelical, 6.6% non-religious, 2.4% Protestant, and 0.3% Greek Catholic (no data was collected on the remaining 14.2% of residents).
External links
Street map (Hungarian)
References
Populated places in Somogy County
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