Vokány
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thumb | right | alt=Church on Kossuth Street, Vokány. | Church on Kossuth Street, Vokány. Vokány () is a village in Baranya County, Hungary. Until the end of World War II, the inhabitants were Danube Swabians, also called locally as Stifolder, because their ancestors arrived around 1720 from Fulda (district). Most of the former German settlers were expelled to Allied-occupied Germany and Allied-occupied Austria in 1945–1948, under the Potsdam Agreement. Only a few Germans of Hungary live there, the majority today are the descendants of Hungarians from the Czechoslovak–Hungarian population exch
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The entry is geolocated on the map in city, across 2 mapped points.
Vinony files it under Geography articles needing translation from Hungarian Wikipedia and Populated places in Baranya County.
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Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Vokány
- Settlement.other_name
- Wakan
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Village (Falva)
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- County
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Baranya
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Imperial
- Settlement.timezone
- CET
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +1
- Settlement.timezone_DST
- CEST
- Settlement.utc_offset_DST
- +2
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Hungary
- Country
- Hungary
- Located in
- Siklós District
- Population
- 763
- Area
- 1709
- Shares border with
- Áta
- Official website
- www.vokany.hu
- Image
- Vokány, templom a Kossuth utcában.jpg
- Dialing code
- 72
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- Commons category
- Vokány
- postal code
- 7768
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Encyclopedic overview
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thumb | right | alt=Church on Kossuth Street, Vokány. | Church on Kossuth Street, Vokány. Vokány () is a village in Baranya County, Hungary. Until the end of World War II, the inhabitants were Danube Swabians, also called locally as Stifolder, because their ancestors arrived around 1720 from Fulda (district). Most of the former German settlers were expelled to Allied-occupied Germany and Allied-occupied Austria in 1945–1948, under 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 obtained the houses of the former Danube Swabian inhabitants.
==References==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Vokány” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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2 mapped locations