Solymár

Also known as Solymar

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Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.pushpin_map: Hungary
Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.pushpin_map_caption: Location of Solymár
Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.official_name: Solymár
Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.other_name: Schaumar
Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.subdivision_type1: County
Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.subdivision_name1: Pest County
Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.population_as_of: 2005
Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.area_total_km2: 17.86
Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.population_total: 9455
Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.population_density_km2: 567
Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.postal_code_type: Postal code
Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.postal_code: 2083
Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.area_code: 26

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Population: 10927
Area: 17.86
Official website: www.solymar.hu
Image: Helytörténeti Gyűjtemény épülete, volt lakóház (7303. számú műemlék).jpg
Dialing code: 26

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Commons category: Solymár
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postal code: 2083

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Solymár () is a village in northwest of Budapest metropolitan area, bordering the 3rd and 2nd districts of the city, as well as Nagykovácsi, Pilisszentiván, Pilisvörösvár, Csobánka, Pilisborosjenő, and Üröm. Its picturesque surroundings (hills to the south and east, the highest point is Zsíroshegy at 424m) and good accessibility the 64, 64A, 64B, 164, 164B, 264, 157 and 964 city buses from Hűvösvölgy, 218 from Óbuda, 831 from Pilisszántó, a train from Budapest Nyugati and Esztergom, and coaches from Árpád-híd made it a desirable destination for affluent city-dwellers moving to suburban homes outside of Budapest from the mid-1990s. Its historical German-speaking majority was depopulated following the Second World War, some non-compulsively, and a great majority by force in a series of deportations, which is solemnly remembered in a commemorative monument erected in the village in 1990.

==History== The name of the village is first mentioned in a charter by Béla IV dated 5 May 1266, as Solomar. The most likely etymology of the name is Hungarian solymár (more commonly solymász): ‘falconer’, i.e., the place where the royal falconers live. (Several neighbouring villages were named similarly.) The village prospered during the following centuries and probably hosted a royal hunting castle (Szarkavár), which burnt down after 1561. The advance of the Ottoman Empire left the village deserted after 1580.