Vokány

Coordinates: 45°55′N 18°20′E / 45.917°N 18.333°E / 45.917; 18.333
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Vokány
Wakan
Village
Coordinates: 45°55′N 18°20′E / 45.917°N 18.333°E / 45.917; 18.333
Country Hungary
CountyBaranya
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)

Vokány (German: Wakan) is a village in Baranya County, Hungary. Until the end of World War II, the inhabitants were Danube Swabians, also called locally as Stifolder, because their ancestors arrived around 1720 from Fulda (district).[1] Most of the former German settlers were expelled to Allied-occupied Germany and Allied-occupied Austria in 1945–1948, under the Potsdam Agreement.[2] Only a few Germans of Hungary live there, the majority today are the descendants of Hungarians from the Czechoslovak–Hungarian population exchange. They obtained the houses of the former Danube Swabian inhabitants.

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Feked - Stifolder_tortenet.pdf" (PDF). feked.hu.
  2. ^ "Die Vertreibung – Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Ungarn".