Abaliget
Sign in to saveAbaliget (, ) is a village () in central Baranya County, Pécs District, in southern Hungary. Until the end of World War II, the inhabitants' majority was Danube Swabian, also called locally as Stifolder, because their ancestors arrived in the 17th and 18th centuries from Fulda (district). Most of the former German settlers were expelled to Allied-occupied Germany and Allied-occupied Austria in 1945–1948, pursuant to the Potsdam Agreement. Only a few Germans of Hungary live there, the majority today are the descendants of Hungarians from the Czechoslovak–Hungarian population exchange. They got
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- Abaliget
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- Village
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- Location of Baranya county in Hungary
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- Hungary Baranya#Hungary
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- Location of Abaliget
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- Country
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- County
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- Baranya
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- 16.09
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- 647
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- 1 Jan 2019
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- +1
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- +2
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Abaliget (, ) is a village () in central Baranya County, Pécs District, in southern Hungary. Until the end of World War II, the inhabitants' majority was Danube Swabian, also called locally as Stifolder, because their ancestors arrived in the 17th and 18th centuries from Fulda (district). Most of the former German settlers were expelled to Allied-occupied Germany and Allied-occupied Austria in 1945–1948, pursuant to the Potsdam Agreement. Only a few Germans of Hungary live there, the majority today are the descendants of Hungarians from the Czechoslovak–Hungarian population exchange. They got the houses of the former Danube Swabian inhabitants. It is located in the western Mecsek Mountains. The nearby Abaliget Cave and the area's lakes and hiking trails make it a popular tourist destination. Its population at the 2011 Census was 598.
== Geography == The village is located at 46° 8′ 39.08″ N, 18° 7′ 0.3″ E. Its area is . It is part of the Southern Transdanubia statistical region, and administratively it falls under Baranya County and then Pécs District.