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Baranya (region) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The region of Baranya was settled by the Slavs in the 6th century, while Hungarians arrived in the 9th century. Baranya county arose as one of the first comitatus of the Kingdom of Hungary, in the 11th century. By the Treaty of Trianon of 1920, the Baranya region was formally divided between Hungary and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, but de facto remained under the administration of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes until 1921. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Baranja   (467 words)

Baranya - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Baranya (Baranja), a geographical region in Hungary and Croatia. Baranya, a county in the historic Kingdom of Hungary. This is a disambiguation page—a list of articles associated with the same title. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Baranya   (105 words)

Baranya - Unipedia Baranya (Hungarian, in Croatian and Serbian: Baranja) is the name of an administrative county (comitatus or megye) in present Hungary, and also in the former Kingdom of Hungary. Baranya county lies in southern Hungary, on the border with Croatia. Baranya is also the name of a historic administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. www.unipedia.info /Baranja.html   (371 words)

Baranya   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) Baranya is the southern most county of Hungary and shows meridional characteristics also according to its cultural and geographical-morphologic profile. Baranya is linked with the Reno-Meno-Danube river roadway and yet there are no motorways However, both in the field of road and air transport (there is the Pècs-Pogàny airport) considerable prospects of future development are expected. Besides the mining industry Baranya has also had, even since the nineteenth century, a thriving economy, whose principal economic branches are the food and timber industries, the manufacture of musical instruments, work in leather and the ceramics industry, of which Zsolnay porcellain is world famous. www.alpeadria.org /origini/geogra/011/011_i.htm   (998 words)

Osijek-Baranja County (Croatia)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) The tower on the bridge is taken from the arms of the city of Osijek, the seat of administration of the County. In this region, the bridge has become an emblem of historical and modern European traffic routes that connect the north of Europe with its south, simultaneously connoting the European affiliation of the region as well. The tower: The history of this region is marked by an early colonization and establishment of urban settlements. www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/hr-os.html   (2207 words)

The region The three counties constituting the region (Baranya, Somogy and Tolna) have a population of about 1 million and can be regarded as a gateway to the Mediterranean area, through the Southern Slavic territories. This region boasts one of the most highly developed infrastructure of higher education in Hungary, training a large number of well qualified professionals for the businesses, which can also obtain local tax benefits in the course of negotiations with the local governments. Research activities are also pursued at the Regional Research Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, mainly in the field of regional planning, rural and urban development, as well as the European integration process. www.infocus.hu /region.htm   (758 words)

THE HUNGARIANS OF VOJVODINA, CROATIA AND THE TRANSMURA REGION This flatland territory - with the exception of the alluvial soil of the river regions, the brown forest soil of the Fruska Gora (Péterváradi) Mountains, and the meadow soils and the ameliorated peats of the Bánát - is covered to a large degree with chernozem. This region, already in existence in the previous century, includes the Bánát region and Arad county in Rumania, Békés, Csongrád, Bács-Kiskun and Baranya counties in Hungary, and Baranya and Slavonia in Croatia. In this region, between the Danube and Drava rivers, the 1910 Hungarian population proportion of 40 % decreased to 16.5 % in 1991, primarily as a result of the large scale traditional birth control, migration to Eszék, emmigration abroad and the registration of about the tenth of local Hungarians as "Yugoslavs". www.hungarian-history.hu /lib/hmcb/hmcb06.htm   (2818 words)

Somogy - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography It stretches between the river Drave and the southern shore of Lake Balaton. Somogy county shared borders with the Hungarian counties Zala, Veszprém, Tolna, Baranya, Verőce and Belovár-Körös (the latter two part of Croatia-Slavonia). It covered the southern shore of Lake Balaton and the region south of the lake. www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Somogy   (299 words)

Government Office for Hungarian Minorities Abroad   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) The region’s delegates attended until 1848 the sessions of Croatia’s Sabor (parliament) in Zagreb and of the Hungarian parliament in Pozsony (Bratislava). To replace the decimated population, the Royal Chamber and the landowners settled Germans, Czechs, Slovaks, and Italians in the region. By the end of the 1980s, the Hungarians living in Baranya (Baranja) and eastern Slavonia enjoyed an orderly social, political, educational, cultural and religious life, and disposed of a rich and well-functioning institutional network. www.htmh.gov.hu /en/?menuid=0403   (2980 words)

SHP Article 30:3_9 The Baranya stamps were issued on December 18, 1919 and were used even after the Serbians withdrew from the area. The 'small' Baranya triangle formed by the Danuben and the Drava Rivers with the Trianon border of Hungary, was not evacuated and today is a part of Croatia. Because some Baranya I stamps still could be found in the hands of individuals and some stamps from Hungary proper got to Baranya and preprinted postal stationery was generally available, there was a good chance to create mixed frankings. www.hungarianphilately.org /articles/article30_3_9.htm   (1852 words)

Baranya County (Hungary)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) The Coat of Arms of Baranya county (Comitatus Baraniensis) was granted by King Leopold in 1694. There are actually counties in both countries using that name - Baranya Megye in HU, and Osjecko-baranjska zupanija in HR (to use their local names). The souther part of histrical Baranya county was included after the World War I in what became latter known as Yugoslavia, and consquently in Croatia. www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/hu-by.html   (627 words)

Baranya --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust! Although Pécs is the megye seat, it is a county-level city, administratively independent of Baranya. Komló, 8 miles (13 km) north of Pécs, is a planned coal-mining town with a full range of social services; its collieries have considerably expanded since World War II. It is divided into two parts: Kiskunság, the area lying between the Danube and Tisza rivers, and Transtisza (Tiszántúl), the region east of the Tisza. www.britannica.com /ebc/article-9013275   (475 words)

DunahiD By establishing the Mohács Enterprising Area it becomes necessary to make public the fact also on international regional relation level, that this region of Baranya county due to its geopolitical position is the prospective southern EU gate of Hungary. In Passau, the experts representing the regions outlined the overall interests and main objectives of their regions, which they intended to achieve in the course of ECOS OUVERTURE programme and during the negotiations they revealed the topics subject to common interest. Beyond the tighter interest of Baranya, all these are also strongly emphasised by the circumstance, that with the end of the South Slavonic war the position of Mohács region and the whole Transdanubia will be basically and strategically changed and revalued. www.dunahid.hu /5e.php3   (1101 words)

Slavonija i Baranya   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) The Slavonski Brod and Sava Basin County, the Osijek and Baranya County, the Pozega and Slavonia County, the Vukovar and Srijem County and the Virovitica and Drava Basin County. Only a few hours' drive away from the hearth of Europe, Slavonia and Baranya is the ideal destination for tourists who equal the holidays with the escape from the city crush, with peace and silence, with top service and gourmet offer. During the whole year a series of the folklore and music manifestations take place in Slavonia and Baranya, providing the insight into the traditional rootage of Croatian man, Slavonian, "Sokac", for whose hospitality it is always especially recommendable to come to these countrysides. www.hr /hrvatska/HRgradovi/Slavonija/Slavonija.html   (298 words)

Yugoslav Daily Survey, 98-01-09 The Chief of the U.N. Transitional Administration in the Srem-Baranya Region (UNTAES) said in Belgrade on Tuesday that the expiry of the UNTAES mandate on Jan. 15 did not mean the end of international presence in the region. He said that, although there was heightened concern among the Serb population in the region, there was no evidence of a massive exodus of Serb families. He further said he had drawn Milutinovic's attention to the fact that the Serb community in the Srem-Baranya region was beginning to organise itself politically and was becoming a political force to be reckoned with. www.hri.org /news/agencies/yds/1998/98-01-09.yds.html   (3341 words)

Ukraine Info | Travel | Places   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) The Lviv region is situated in the western part of Ukraine and is one of its most developed regions. It borders upon the Volyn and Rivne regions in the north and north-west, Ternopil and Ivano-Frankivsk regions in the west and south-west, Zakarpattya region in the south, and Poland in the west. Nearly the whole of the region is covered by the mobile communications network operated by the Lviv division of the UMC (Ukrainian Mobile Communications) joint venture. www.ukraineinfo.us /travel/lviv   (1466 words)

Hungary - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) Average temperature in the summer is 27-32 °C, in the winter it is 0 to -15 °C. Average yearly fall equals app. A small, southern region of the country near Pécs enjoys mediterranean climate. The relative isolation of the Carpathian Basin makes it susceptible to droughts and the effects of Global Warming are already felt. open-encyclopedia.com /Hungary   (1528 words)

Janus Pannonius Museum, Pecs The various departments of the Janus Pannonius Municipal Museum are distributed among a number of buildings in the town center. The Archaeological Department is housed in an 18th C plait style building behind the former mosque; it documents in an impressive manner the long history of human settlement in the Baranya region. Among the outstanding exhibits are the remains of a Early Stone Age settlement (c 60,000 bc), relics of a Late Stone Age culture found on Mount Mákar, together with Celtic and Bronze Age finds from Mount Jakab. www.planetware.com /pecs/janus-pannonius-museum-h-br-jpm.htm   (119 words)

Bog je Jedan: August 2005 Nagyharsány (Veliki Hršanj) is a small village in Baranya with a significant Croatian minority near to the Croatian boarder. Gejza Malašić (Malasits Géza, 1874 – 1948) was born of a Croatian family of the Mura region (Medjimurje). The Petričevićes, an ancient Dalmatian family of the famous Mogorović clan, lords of the castle Radoch (Zadar region) in the 16th century got to Transylvania. bogjejedan.blogspot.com /2005_08_01_bogjejedan_archive.html   (1865 words)

Wines of Hungary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) The soil in the Mecsek region is typically gravelly, composed of limestone, sandstone, and slate, and, though rainfall is average, the soils retain little water. Lots of warmth and sunshine make Hungary's southernmost wine-growing region an excellent host for the fl grape, and their deep red wines (Oporto, Kekfrankos, Cabernet, Merlot, Pinot Noir and Zweigelt) are exceptional. Zoltán Polgár, from the Villány-Siklós region surrounding Pécs, is typical of the wine producers throughout Baranya County. www.azstarnet.com /nonprofit/sstrcty/index/wines.htm   (322 words)

PAKISTA2.htm in Business Recorder on May 19, 1996   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) ZAGREB (CROATIA): Pakistani troops assumed the duties of the United Nations peace-keepers in Baranya region in the Eastern Slavonia. Jacques Paul Klein, transitional administrator for Eastern Slavonia, Baranya and Western Sirmium was the chief guest on the occasion. Welcoming the Pakistani troops in Baranya region, Colonel Reynaert wished them 'success' during their stay in their area of responsibility. www.paksearch.com /br96/May/19/PAKISTA2.htm   (296 words)

Balkans and Neighbors   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) Although few of these claims are actual government policies, all represent the aspirations of nationalists within the region. The Islamic nations of the Middle East have little political interest in a distant European region fighting for independence, but the religious ties have already been tenuously used as a political hammer to increase the international influence of these nations. Italy at present is content to accept its role as Balkan economic and spiritual savior, a role it filled by accepting many Albanian refugees during the summer exodus of 1991. www.phoenixcommand.com /hell5.htm   (1614 words)

Cheezio These farms are located in Baranya county in the so called "Greenvalley". We are carry on negotiations with the milk growers of the region about a long-term co-operation. We are wish to draw into the milk transportation the milk grower subsistence farms which are within the 60-80 km area from our factory and besides we want to let the stockbreeders get fixed or additional income by establishing a new type of co-operative. www.cheezio.hu /english/ceg.html   (601 words)

History and Program The Founding Assembly of the Croatian Party of Slavonia and Baranya (S-BHS) was held in Osijek on December 12, 1992, and the party was registered on February 25, 1993. The fourth Assembly of the S-BHS was held in Osijek on December 1, 2001 when a new leadership was elected and the statute substantially amended. On that occasion A Programme was adopted that defines the position, the role and the basic directions of S-BHS in Slavonia and Baranya as well as in Croatia. www.hidra.hr /strankeE/programi/028372e.htm   (168 words)

EurECA Events It is the capital of the Slavonia-Baranya region of north-eastern Croatia and has a population of 105,000. After Djakovo turn north onto the E73 regional road to Osijek. Further details can be sent nearer the time of the conference if you need them. www.hfe.org /_old/eureca/aboutus/events2.htm   (402 words)

The World Factbook 2004 -- Field Listing - Administrative divisions 8 regions (regions, singular - region); Gao, Kayes, Kidal, Koulikoro, Mopti, Segou, Sikasso, Tombouctou 15 departments (departamentos, singular - departamento) and 2 autonomous regions* (regiones autonomistas, singular - region autonomista); Boaco, Carazo, Chinandega, Chontales, Esteli, Granada, Jinotega, Leon, Madriz, Managua, Masaya, Matagalpa, Nueva Segovia, Rio San Juan, Rivas, Atlantico Norte*, Atlantico Sur* 10 regions (regions, singular - region); Dakar, Diourbel, Fatick, Kaolack, Kolda, Louga, Saint-Louis, Tambacounda, Thies, Ziguinchor www.brainyatlas.com /fields/2051.html   (4978 words)

CIA - The World Factbook -- Field Listing - Administrative divisions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) 23 provinces (sheng, singular and plural), 5 autonomous regions (zizhiqu, singular and plural), and 4 municipalities (shi, singular and plural) 9 regions (mkharebi, singular - mkhare), 9 cities (k'alak'ebi, singular - k'alak'i), and 2 autonomous republics (avtomnoy respubliki, singular - avtom respublika) 16 regions (regioni, singular - regione) and 4 autonomous regions* (regioni autonome, singular - regione autonoma); Abruzzo, Basilicata, Calabria, Campania, Emilia-Romagna, Friuli-Venezia Giulia*, Lazio, Liguria, Lombardia, Marche, Molise, Piemonte, Puglia, Sardegna*, Sicilia, Toscana, Trentino-Alto Adige*, Umbria, Valle d'Aosta*, Veneto phatnav.com /factbook/fields/2051.html   (5912 words)

Middle East Open Encyclopedia: Baranya   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) This is an extract from The Middle East Open Encyclopedia, made possible through the Wikimedia Foundation. Iraq Museum International always displays the most recent published revision of the source article, Baranya; all previous versions may be viewed here. They link directly to authoring tools for you to start writing a particular article. www.baghdadmuseum.org /ref/?title=Baranya   (210 words)

Traveljournals.net - Baranya, Hungary - Location on world map, coordinates and short facts Traveljournals.net - Baranya, Hungary - Location on world map, coordinates and short facts / Explore / Hungary / Locations / Baranya Maps and coordinates for Baranya, Hungary are approximative and not valid for navigation. www.traveljournals.net /explore/hungary/map/m1264368/baranya.html   (76 words)

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