Category: Second World War

The future Györköny was an uninhabited puszta (prairie) following the expulsion of the Turks in the latter part of the 17th century by the Habsburg armies who drove them further south and liberated all of former Hungary from their one hundred and fifty year occupation.  To all intents and purposes the region had reverted to…

There had been numerous communities that once thrived where Bikács  is now currently located in Tolna County in southwest Hungary.  As a result of the Turkish occupation after the disaster at Mohács in 1526 the whole region reverted to wilderness; its population was decimated; the survivors were enslaved or went into hiding while some fled to the north. …