Bezenye

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Bezenye Bizonja
Bilingual city limit sign
Non-religious		8.1%
• Unreported	24.0%
Area code	96
Motorways	M15
Distance from Budapest	174 km (108 mi) Southeast

Bezenye (Croatian: Bizonja; German: Pallersdorf; Slovak: Beziň) is a village in Győr-Moson-Sopron County, Hungary. It is situated 6 km from the Slovak border and just 25 km from the Slovak capital Bratislava.

The population of 1600 consists mostly of Hungarians, with a large Croatian minority and smaller communities of Slovaks and Germans. Consequently, the inhabitants communicate in a mixture of languages, none of which are used in their standard forms.

Archaeological investigations reveal that the earliest inhabitants of the area were Germanic tribes. Many artifacts can be seen in the Hanság Museum in the town of Mosonmagyaróvár which is 25 km away, near Győr.

Later on

word meaning "elder" tree ("baza").

The Germans occupied themselves with the production of saltpeter.

After World War II many of the poorer Germans were displaced to Germany. Several Hungarian families came to live in Bezenye, some of whom had been displaced from Slovakia. Request to include mostly Slavic village into Slovakia, together with Rusovce, Jarovce and Čunovo was not accepted.

The village has a small museum which chronicles the history of the village. The

church of the Blessed Virgin Mary holds services in Croatian and Hungarian. The village has a Croatian self-administration.

Famous people

• Mátyás Laáb (1746-1823) Burgenland Croatian writer and translator

References

• The Slovak-Austrian-Hungarian Danubeland. Compiled by Daniel Kollár.
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