Fonyód
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Fonyód (; ) is a town and holiday resort on the southern shore of Lake Balaton, in north-west Somogy County, western Hungary, with over 4,700 residents. It is the seat of Fonyód District.
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- Fonyód
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- Town
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- Skyline of Fonyód
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- CET
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- +1
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- +2
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- Hungary
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- Location of Fonyód
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- Location of Somogy county in Hungary
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- "Town of experiences"
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- Country
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Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Fonyód
- Country
- Hungary
- Located in
- Fonyód District
- Population
- 5055
- Area
- 5355
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Capital of
- Fonyód District
- Shares border with
- Balatonboglár
- Official website
- fonyod.hu
- Image
- Fonyód.jpg
- Dialing code
- 85
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- twinned administrative body
- Mettet
- postal code
- 8640
- Commons category
- Fonyód
- native label
- Fonyód
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Encyclopedic overview
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Fonyód (; ) is a town and holiday resort on the southern shore of Lake Balaton, in north-west Somogy County, western Hungary, with over 4,700 residents. It is the seat of Fonyód District.
==History== The first mention of Fonyód was in a letter of Saint Ladislaus from 1082, as the village Funoldi. In 1232, the village was included into the lands of the Tihany Abbey. Maps from the 14th century show Fonyód as an island (with Balaton being larger), with a castle. The castle was occupied and destroyed in 1575 during the Turkish invasion, with no one living in the village by 1580. After the Turkish occupation, Fonyód remained uninhabited until the 19th century.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Fonyód” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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