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Schandorf (, ) is a village in the district of Oberwart in Burgenland in southeastern Austria.

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Schandorf
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Čemba
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Municipality
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Schandorf_-_Panorama_view_(01).jpg
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Schandorf panoramic view
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AUT Schandorf COA.png
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Austria#Austria Burgenland
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270
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Location within Austria##Location within Burgenland
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left
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Schandorf im Bezirk OW.png
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Location within Oberwart district
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Country
Settlement.subdivision_name
Austria
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State
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Burgenland
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District
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Oberwart

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Schandorf (, ) is a village in the district of Oberwart in Burgenland in southeastern Austria.

== History == The earliest record of the village's existence dates to 1244. In the first half of the 16th century, the region was devastated by attacking Turkish troops, and villages were depopulated. The Hungarian magnate Franz Batthyány arranged for Schandorf and other villages to be repopulated by immigrants from Croatia, and for centuries, the village was an island of Croatian language and culture, surrounded by speakers of Hungarian and German. A dialect of Croatian unique to the village gradually evolved, rich in loanword vocabulary from Hungarian. With ever-increasing outmigration and cosmopolitan influence of German, this dialect is today endangered.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Schandorf” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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