Ág (, ) is a village () in northern

Baranya County Baranya (, ; German language, German:Croatian language, Croatian:'' Baranjska županija'') is a Counties of Hungary, county () in southern Hungary. It is part of the Southern Transdanubia statistical region and the historical Baranya (region), B ...

Hegyhát District Hegyhát () is a district in northern part of Baranya County, Hungary. The district is located in the Southern Transdanubia Statistical Region. It is the only district in Hungarian countryside, which is not named after its district seat. Geograp ...

, in southern

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. Its population at the 2011 Census was 177. Until the end of World War II, the inhabitants' majority was Protestant

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. Most of the former German settlers were expelled to

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and

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in 1945–1948, following the

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. Only a few

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live there, the majority today are the descendants of Hungarians from the

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. They got the houses of the former Danube Swabian inhabitants.

Etymology

The village's name comes from the word ''ág'', meaning 'stream'. It was recorded as ''Naghagh'' in 1487.

Local government

The village is governed by a

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with a four-person council. The local government of the village operates a

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with the nearby localities of Gerényes,

Kisvaszar Kisvaszar is a village in Baranya county, Hungary Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning much of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the ...

Tarrós Tarrós () is a village () in Baranya county, Hungary. Its population at the 2011 census was 129. Local government The village is governed by a mayor with a four-person council. The local government of the village operates a joint council ...

Tékes Tékes () is a village () in Hegyhát District, northern Baranya county, in the Southern Transdanubia region of Hungary. Its population at the 2011 census was 248. Geography The village is located at 46° 17′ 9″ N, 18° 10′ 19″ E. I ...

and

Vásárosdombó Vásárosdombó is a village in Baranya county, Hungary Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning much of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania ...

. Ág maintains a

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, but the seat of the joint council is in Vásárosdombó. As of the election of 2019, the village also has a local minority self-government for its

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community, with three elected representatives.

Transportation

The village is a

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community, with only one access road connecting it to Road 6546 via nearby village Gerényes.

Railway

* Vásárosdombó train station, to the west of the village off Road 6546. The station is on the Pusztaszabolcs–Pécs railway line and is operated by

MÁV The Hungarian State Railways (, , formally MÁV Magyar Államvasutak Zártkörűen Működő Részvénytársaság (MÁV Zrt.). The full official name of the company is MÁV-csoport () now commonly known as MÁV) is the Hungarian national rail ...

Road

* Road 6546 connects the village to

to the west and

Komló Komló (, , ) is a town in Baranya county, Hungary. The name of the settlement is derived from the local crop of hops (komló), an ingredient of beer. By the 18th century a depiction of this plant running up a support already featured on the heral ...

to the south. * Main road 611, a north–south road accessible in

, connects the village to its district seat

Sásd Sásd () is a town in Baranya county, in southern Hungary. The total population of Sásd in 2015 was 3,094. Twin towns – sister cities Sásd is twinned with: * Izvoru Crișului, Romania * Raaba Raaba, also known as Raaba bei Graz, was a v ...

and the town of

Dombóvár Dombóvár (; ) is a town in Tolna County, Hungary. Dombóvár ( German :Dombowa) is a town in Tolna County , the seat of Dombóvár District . It is the third largest settlement in Tolna County , the county seat, after Szekszárd and Paks . Ar ...

External links

Street map

OpenStreetMap

References

Populated places in Baranya County {{Baranya-geo-stub