Somogyvár ( Croatian : Šemudvar ) is a village in Somogy County , Hungary .
7-452: It is situated south from Lengyeltóti , between Lengyeltóti, Öreglak and Somogyvámos . It is a historical tradition that, after the death of Géza of Hungary , Prince Koppány held this central fortress in the region of Somogyvár. Koppány launched the attack on the Veszprém fortress in 997 from here. Archaeological excavations revealed that in 1091 King Ladislaus I of Hungary supported
14-501: The 12th-century church with pair of western towers and three apses in the east side of the east–west nave. The architectural markers date the church back to the 1100 years. The village name had not been mentioned in the list of 1333 Roman Pope episcopal church tax collection, so it is probable that some of the orders at that time in Hungary owned the monastery church. Lengyeltóti is twinned with: This Somogy county location article
21-596: The Ottoman wars in the 16th century. After the battle of Mohács , it was transformed and rebuilt as a fortress. In 1543 the Ottoman army destroyed the monastery fortress. After the end of the Turkish wars and occupation, in 1677 Széchenyi György archbishop of Kalocsa rebuilt the village and it became the possession of the Archbishop of Kalocsa until the 20th century. The Hungarian Fonte Viva company (owned by Mol Group ) bottles
28-538: The building of a Benedictine monastery here. Excavations also revealed layers that date from before the 11th century in the Bronze Age. The Somogyvár Abbey was built between 1091 and 1095 and the first Benedictine monks were invited from the Abbey of Saint-Gilles . Later monks were also invited both from France and other abbeys from Hungary. As so often happened to Benedictine abbeys that were located at important locations,
35-517: The local kings and princes eventually managed to gain control and convert them from monasteries into military fortresses. The royal fortress of Somogyvár was frequently mentioned in charters from 1163. Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor gave the fortress in 1410 to Marczali Miklós. Later, in 1474 the Báthori family received Somogyvár town. Then the Enyingi Török family owned it. The monastery was used till
42-676: The local mineral water in the village. Lengyelt%C3%B3ti Lengyeltóti is a town in Somogy county, Hungary. The settlement is part of the Balatonboglár wine region . The town can be found south from Fonyód , along the highway to Somogyvár , the old seat of the county. The highway went from the Lake Balaton to the southern part of the country. The town sits on the top of a hill. Its name: Tóti meant Slavonic people in Hungarian, so probably
49-424: The old village was populated partly by Slavonic people. First charters mention the village in 1116. The Lengyeltóti Roman Catholic Church is an extraordinary heritage. In the 90s it was known only as a modern times church in eclectic style. During the renovation in 1989 it turned out that walls of an Árpád age church can be found in the southern part of the eclectic new church. The archeological restoration revealed
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