Hosszúhetény (, german: Hetting, Heting, Langheting) is the most populous village in

Baranya county Baranya ( hu, Baranya megye, ) is a county () in southern Hungary. It is part of the Southern Transdanubia statistical region and the historical Baranya region, which was a county (''comitatus'') in the Kingdom of Hungary dating back to the 11 ...

, southwest

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, a significant centre of village tourism. It is located 18 kilometres northeast to

Pécs Pécs ( , ; hr, Pečuh; german: Fünfkirchen, ; also known by other #Name, alternative names) is List of cities and towns of Hungary#Largest cities in Hungary, the fifth largest city in Hungary, on the slopes of the Mecsek mountains in the countr ...

, the county capital, in a valley between the feet of

Zengő Zengő (; hr, Zenka) is the highest mountain in Mecsek Mountains in southern Hungary – its height is 682 metres.Pierre Jolivet, Jorge Santiago-Blay, Michael Schmitt, Research of chrysomelidae, BRILL, 2009 p. 23/ref> The peak is situated in ...

, the highest peak of the

Mecsek Mecsek (; hr, Meček; Serbian: ''Meček'' or Мечек; german: Metscheck) is a mountain range in southern Hungary. It is situated in the Baranya region, in the north of the city of Pécs. Etymology The Hungarian toponym "Mecsek" derives from ...

mountains and the peak called Hármashegy. It has a population of 3424 (as of 1 January 2010) and an area of . The valley has been inhabited since the

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. Two other nearby villages belong to the administration of Hosszúhetény: Püspökszentlászló and

Kisújbánya Kisújbánya is a village in Baranya county, Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the nor ...

. Located in an environmentally protected area, a special microclimate producing rare flower species like '' Paeonia officinalis ssp'', among picturesque mountains, the three villages are popular among tourists who arrive from all parts of Hungary and abroad. One of the main sites is the arboretum of the episcopal castle in Püspökszentlászló. Tourism gives an increasing portion of the villagers' revenues after the decline of coal mining which flourished in the region between the 1950s and 1990.

NATO radar

In the 2000s the Hungarian government wanted to build a

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radar station on the top of the Zengő, but the plan foundered in 2005 on fierce resistance from the inhabitants of Hosszúhetény and nearby

Pécsvárad Pécsvárad (german: Petschwar; hr, Pečvar) is a town in Baranya County, Hungary. Notable landmarks Among the most significant Hungarian heritage from the Middle Ages is the castle built on a Benedictine monastery commissioned by King St Steph ...

and environmentalist groups including

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People

Bertalan Andrásfalvy Bertalan Andrásfalvy (born 17 November 1931)''Pécs Lexikon I. (A–M)''. ed. Romváry, Ferenc, Pécs Lexikon Kulturális Nonprofit Kft. 2010, Pécs. p. 38; is a former Hungarian ethnographer and politician, who served as Minister of Educ ...

, politician, ethnographer *

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, sculptor * Zsuzsa Deák, graphic artist *

Alajos Degré Alajos Degré ( Lippa, Hungary (today in Romania), January 6, 1819 – Budapest, November 1, 1896) was Hungarian lawyer, legal historian, author and one of the key figures of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848. Life He was born to a middle-class, ...

, jurist * Mária Fischer, writer * Tamás Herbert, environmentalist * Károly Hetényi Varga, writer :hu:Hetényi Varga Károly

International relations

Twin towns — Sister cities

Hosszúhetény is twinned with: *

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( hu, Tamásfalva),

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( hu, Tordaszentlászló),

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