Mohács

{{Infobox settlement

| settlement_type = Town

| official_name = Mohács

| other_name = Mohač, Mohatsch

| image_skyline = Mohács légifotó.jpg

| image_caption = Aerial view

| image_shield = HUN Mohács COA.svg

| image_flag = Flag of Mohács.svg

| pushpin_map = Hungary

| pushpin_label_position = top

| pushpin_map_caption = Location of Mohács

| coordinates = {{coord|45.99593|18.67985|region:HU|display=inline,title}}

| subdivision_type = Country

| subdivision_name = {{HUN}}

| subdivision_type1 = County

| subdivision_name1 = Baranya

| subdivision_type2 = District

| subdivision_name2 = Mohács

| area_total_km2 = 112.23

| population_footnotes =

| population_total = 17808

| population_as_of = 2011

| population_density_km2 = 158.67

| timezone = CET

| utc_offset = +1

| timezone_DST = CEST

| utc_offset_DST = +2

| postal_code_type = Postal code

| postal_code = 7700

| area_code_type = Area code

| area_code = (+36) 69

| website = {{URL|https://www.mohacs.hu/}}

| name =

| leader_title = Mayor

| leader_name = Gábor Pávkovics (Fidesz)

}}

Mohács ({{IPA|hu|ˈmohaːt͡ʃ}}; Croatian: Mohač; {{langx|de|Mohatsch}}; {{langx|sr|Мохач}}; {{langx|tr|Mohaç}}; {{langx|ro|Mohaci}}) is a town in Baranya County, Hungary, on the right bank of the Danube.

Etymology

The name probably comes from the Slavic *Mъchačь,*Mocháč: mъchъ (moss, Hungarian moha is a loanword from Slavic) + the Slavic suffix -ačь, like Slovak Mochnáč or Czech Macháč.{{cite book |last=Stanislav |first=Ján |author-link=Ján Stanislav |title=Slovenský juh v stredoveku II.| page=298| publisher=Slovenské literárne centrum |year=2004 |language=Slovak |isbn=80-88878-89-6}}{{cite book |last=Kiss |first=Lajos |title=Földrajzi nevek etimológiai szótára|location=Budapest |page=429|publisher=Akadémiai |year=1978 |language=Hungarian}} See 1093/1190/1388 Mohach.

History

Two famous battles took place in the vicinity of Mohács in 1526 and 1687. These battles represented the beginning and end, respectively, of the Ottoman domination of Hungary.

In Roman times there was a camp on the banks of the Danube near Mohács.

In the medieval Kingdom of Hungary, Mohács formed part of the historical Baranya county, and during Ottoman rule it functioned as the administrative seat of the Sanjak of Mohács, an Ottoman administrative unit.

{{cite book

|editor-last1 = Káldy-Nagy

|editor-first1 = Gyula

|title = A budai szandzsák 1546-1590: demográfiai és gazdaságtörténeti adatok. évi összeírásai

|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=r8AhAAAAMAAJ

|series = Volume 6 of Pest Megye múltjából, ISSN 0209-6013

|year = 1985

|publisher = Pest Megyei Levéltá

|publication-date = 1985

|page = 32

|isbn = 9789630161848

|access-date = 12 March 2022

|quote = In the mid-16th century, the kile in the sanjak of Mohács was equal to the Hungarian fertál, which according to Turkish records, was the equivalent of 24 okkas (30.76 kg).

}}

After the Habsburgs took the area from the Ottomans, Mohács was included in the restored Baranya county.

In 1910 the population of the Mohács district numbered 56,909 people, of whom 21,951 spoke German, 20,699 Hungarian, 4,312 Serbian, and 421 Croatian. Another 9,600 inhabitants were listed as speaking "other languages".{{Cite web |url=http://www.talmamedia.com/php/district/district.php?county=Baranya |title=Baranya County |access-date=2006-08-12 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080329021829/http://www.talmamedia.com/php/district/district.php?county=Baranya |archive-date=2008-03-29 |url-status=dead }}

Until the end of World War II, Danube Swabians comprised the majority of the inhabitants - called locally Stifolder, because their ancestors came in the 17th and 18th centuries from Fulda (district).{{Cite web |title=Feked - Stifolder_tortenet.pdf |url=https://www.feked.hu/etc/Stifolder_tortenet.pdf |website=feked.hu}} Most of the former German settlers were expelled to Allied-occupied Germany and Allied-occupied Austria in 1945-1948, in accordance with the 1945 Potsdam Agreement.{{Cite web|url=https://ldu-online.de/die-vertreibung|title=Die Vertreibung – Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Ungarn}}

Events

Every spring, the town hosts the annual Busójárás carnival.

Demographics

According to the 2011 census, the total population of Mohács was 17,808, of whom there were 15,842 (84.2%) Hungarians, 1,723 (9.7%) Germans, 700 (3.9%) Croats, and 537 (3%) Romani. 14% of the total population did not declare their ethnicity. In Hungary, people can declare more than one ethnicity (dual identity), so the sum exceeds the total population.{{Cite web|url=https://www.ksh.hu/nepszamlalas/tablak_teruleti_02|title=Központi Statisztikai Hivatal|website=www.ksh.hu}}{{Cite web |title=Hungarian Census 2011- final data and methodology |url= http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/idoszaki/nepsz2011/nepsz_03_00_2011.pdf}}

Twin towns – sister cities

Mohács is twinned with:{{Cite web |title=Nemzetközi kapcsolatok|url=http://www.xn--mohcs-zqa.hu/?p=22&menu=1|website=mohács.hu|publisher=Mohács|language=hu|access-date=2021-03-24}}