Somogyzsitfa

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Somogyzsitfa
Somogyfehéregyháza and Felsőzsitva (until 1950)
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Somogyzsitfa
Location of Somogyzsitfa
Coordinates: 46°32′54″N17°18′02″E / 46.5483°N 17.30046°E / 46.5483; 17.30046 Coordinates: 46°32′54″N17°18′02″E / 46.5483°N 17.30046°E / 46.5483; 17.30046
Country Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary
Region Southern Transdanubia
County Somogy
District Marcali
RC Diocese Kaposvár
Area
 • Total27.22 km2 (10.51 sq mi)
Population (2017)
 • Total583 [1]
Demonym(s) zsitfai, somogyzsitfai
Time zone UTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST) UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code 8734
Area code(s) (+36) 85
NUTS 3 code HU232
MP József Attila Móring (KDNP)
Website Somogyzsitva Online

Somogyzsitfa (until 1950 as Somogyfehéregyháza and Felsőzsitva) is a village in Somogy county, Hungary. It consists of the two former villages of Somogyfehéregyháza and Felsőzsitva.

Somogy County Counties of Hungary in Southern Transdanubia

Somogy is an administrative county in present Hungary, and also in the former Kingdom of Hungary.

Hungary Country in Central Europe

Hungary is a country in Central Europe. Spanning 93,030 square kilometres (35,920 sq mi) in the Carpathian Basin, it borders Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Austria to the northwest, Romania to the east, Serbia to the south, Croatia to the southwest, and Slovenia to the west. With about 10 million inhabitants, Hungary is a medium-sized member state of the European Union. The official language is Hungarian, which is the most widely spoken Uralic language in the world. Hungary's capital and its largest city and metropolis is Budapest. Other major urban areas include Debrecen, Szeged, Miskolc, Pécs and Győr.

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The settlement is part of the Balatonboglár wine region. [2]

Balatonboglár wine region

The Balatonboglár wine region, also known as the South Balaton wine region, is the only one wine region in Somogy County, Hungary. The area consists of 37 settlements, mainly located on the southern shore of Lake Balaton, but also some near Kaposvár like Böhönye, Csurgó and Nagyberki. It is part of the greater Balaton wine region.

Etymology

Somogyfehéregyháza (English: Somogy white house) got its name after its whitewashed buildings or church during the Middle Ages. The name of Felsőzsitva consists of the Hungarian felső (English: upper) and the South Slavic zsitva (Hungarian : gabona, English: grain). [3]

Hungarian language language spoken in and around Hungary

Hungarian is a Finno-Ugric language spoken in Hungary and several neighbouring countries. It is the official language of Hungary and one of the 24 official languages of the European Union. Outside Hungary it is also spoken by communities of Hungarians in the countries that today make up Slovakia, western Ukraine (Subcarpathia), central and western Romania (Transylvania), northern Serbia (Vojvodina), northern Croatia, and northern Slovenia. It is also spoken by Hungarian diaspora communities worldwide, especially in North America and in Israel. Like Finnish and Estonian, Hungarian belongs to the Uralic language family. With 13 million speakers, it is its largest member in terms of speakers.

South Slavic languages Language family

The South Slavic languages are one of three branches of the Slavic languages. There are approximately 30 million speakers, mainly in the Balkans. These are separated geographically from speakers of the other two Slavic branches by a belt of German, Hungarian and Romanian speakers. The first South Slavic language to be written was the variety spoken in Thessaloniki, now called Old Church Slavonic, in the ninth century. It is retained as a liturgical language in some South Slavic Orthodox churches in the form of various local Church Slavonic traditions.

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References

  1. ↑ Somogyzsitfa
  2. ↑ A Balatonboglári borvidék hegyközségi tanácsának alapszabálya (PDF)
  3. ↑ Lajos Király : Somogyi helységnevek népi és ...
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