Sellye (; ) is a town in
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 ...
, southern
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 east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia and ...
. It is the centre of the
Ormánság region located in the southern part of the county.
History
According to ''László Szita,'' the settlement was completely Hungarian in the 18th century.
László Szita : Somogy megyei nemzetiségek településtörténete a XVIII-XIX. században - Somogyi Almanach 52. (Kaposvár, 1993)
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Twin towns — sister cities
Sellye is twinned with:
* Gnas, Austria
* Grubišno Polje
Grubišno Polje (Czech: ''Hrubečné Pole,'' Hungarian'': Grobosinc,'' German'': Poglack'') is a town in Bjelovar-Bilogora County, Croatia.
Demographics
In the 1991 census, the settlement had equal numbers of Serbs and Croatians, but during the ...
, Croatia
References
External links
* in Hungarian
Populated places in Baranya County
{{Baranya-geo-stub