Palkonya
Palkonya is a village in Baranya County, Hungary. This village was once settled by Turks in Hungary until 1699 and the church was once a mosque. Until the end of World War II, the majority of the inhabitants was Danube Swabian, also called locally as Stifolder, because their ancestors arrived in the 17th and 18th centuries from Fulda.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Tukan, Public domain.
- Type: Village with 235 residents
- Description: village in Hungary
- Also known as: “Németpalkonya”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Palkonya railway halt and Villánykövesd railway halt.
Palkonya railway halt
Railway stop
Photo: Pelenczei Balázs, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Palkonya railway halt is a railway stop.
Villánykövesd railway halt
Railway stop
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Villánykövesd railway halt is a railway stop, which is situated 3 km southeast of Palkonya.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Villány and Virágos.
Villány
Town
Photo: Cserlajos, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Villány is a town in Baranya County, Hungary that is famous for its wine. Residents are Hungarians, with minority of Croats, Serbs and Germans of Hungary. Villány is situated 6 km southeast of Palkonya.
Virágos
Suburb
Photo: Pasztilla, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Virágos is a suburb, which is situated 7 km east of Palkonya.
Áta
Village
Photo: Szajci, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Áta is a village in Baranya county, Hungary. The 2019 Gazetteer of Hungary shows the population of Áta to be 159 and its area to cover 809 hectares. Áta railway station to the east of the village is on the Pécs–Villány–Magyarbóly railway line. Áta is situated 9 km northwest of Palkonya.
Palkonya
- Categories: municipality of Hungary and locality
- Location: Baranya County, Southern Transdanubia, Hungary, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
45.89534° or 45° 53′ 43″ northLongitude
18.39078° or 18° 23′ 27″ eastPopulation
235Elevation
136 metres (446 feet)Open location code
8FQWV9WR+48OpenStreetMap ID
node 17502311OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
3046737Wikidata ID
Q637469
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Vietnamese—“Palkonya” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Palkonya”
- Chinese: “Palkonya”
- Chinese: “保尔科尼奥”
- Croatian: “Plakinja”
- Czech: “Palkonya”
- Dutch: “Palkonya”
- Esperanto: “Palkonya”
- French: “Palkonya”
- German: “Palkan”
- German: “Palkonya”
- Hungarian: “Palkonya”
- Irish: “Palkonya”
- Italian: “Palkonya”
- Lombard: “Palkonya”
- Malay: “Palkonya”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Palkonya”
- Persian: “پالکونیا”
- Polish: “Palkonya”
- Portuguese: “Palkonya”
- Romanian: “Palkonya, Baranya”
- Romanian: “Palkonya”
- Serbian: “Палкоња”
- Slovak: “Palkonya”
- Slovenian: “Palkonya”
- Spanish: “Palkonya”
- Turkish: “Palkonya”
- Vietnamese: “Palkonya”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Palkonya”. Photo: Tukan, Public domain.