Kurd is a village in
Tolna County
Tolna (, ; ) is an administrative county (Comitatus (Kingdom of Hungary), comitatus or vármegye) in present-day Hungary as it was in the former Kingdom of Hungary. It lies in central Hungary, on the west bank of the river Danube. It shares borde ...
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Hungary
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Kurdish tribal chiefs were present in Hungary during the
Ottoman–Hungarian Wars and fought the Hungarian army from 1440 to 1442. The village of Kurd can be bound to the legendary Kurdish military chief Kurd Pasha, whose grave is located near the city.
In 1729, migrants from central Hungary of Hungarian, Slavic, Serbian and Slovak origin settled in the village. Until
World War II
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Germans from
Rheinland
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and Romas constituted the majority of the village.
Whether the local population is of Kurdish descent is doubtful, but the mayor István Cser and locals expressed their awareness of Kurdish affairs during an interview in 1998.
References
Further reading
* Kaczián, János, ed. "Kurd"
he community of Kurd Tolna megye kézikönyve. Magyarország megyei kézikönyvei, 16. Hatvan: CEBA, pp. 482–484.
* Vanly, Ismet Chériff. "Between Europe and Asia. The Kurdish Question". Lêkolîn (Journal of Kurdish Studies of Kurdish Institute in Berlin), 3, 1996, pp. 9–29.
* Hegyi, Klára and Pál Fodor. "Sikeretlen török adószerzési kísérlet a királyi Magyarországon"
n unsuccessful Turkish attempt at imposing taxes on subjects of Royal Hungary Keletkutatás, tavasz, 1995, pp. 97–103
* Várkonyi, Ágnes R. Török világ és magyar külpolitika
urkish world and Hungarian foreign policy Budapest: Magvető, 1975.
Populated places in Tolna County
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