Beremend Behrend | |
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Large village | |
 Chapel of Peace in Beremend | |
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  Beremend Location of Beremend | |
| Coordinates:45°47′02″N18°25′56″E / 45.78384°N 18.43233°E /45.78384; 18.43233 | |
| Country |  Hungary |
| County | Baranya |
| District | Siklós |
| Area | |
• Total | 48.26 km2 (18.63 sq mi) |
| Population (2014) | |
• Total | 2,467 |
| • Density | 58.18/km2 (150.7/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Postal code | 7827 |
| Area code | (+36) 72 |
Beremend (German:Behrend;Serbian:Бреме,Breme;Croatian:Breme, Bremen, Brime[1]) is a village inBaranya County,Hungary on the Croatian border, it constitutes the southernmost point of the country.[2]
In the 17th and 18th century, the village was settled byGermans,Serbs andHungarians after a victory over theOttoman Empire.[3]
Until the end of World War II, the town's inhabitants wereDanube Swabians, also referred to locally asStifolder, because their ancestors arrived in the 17th and 18th centuries from the German district ofFulda.[4] Most of the former German settlers wereexpelled toAllied-occupied Germany andAllied-occupied Austria in 1945–1948, consequent to thePotsdam Agreement.[5]
FewGermans remain today. The majority of the modern population are the descendants of Hungarians from theCzechoslovak–Hungarian population exchange. They occupied the houses of the former Danube Swabian inhabitants.
In Beremend, it is partly cloudy year round. Over the course of the year, the temperature typically varies from 28 °F to 83 °F and is rarely below 16 °F or above 92 °F.[6]
Thousands of refugees arrived fromCroatia enterHungary as Hungarian army members take security measures at Hungarian-Croatian border on September 19, 2015.[7] Thousands drowned while trying the cross theMediterranean fromLibya andTurkey toEurope, prompting an EU-wide mission to intercept people attempting to make the crossing. However, Hungary sent armored vehicles to its border with Croatia, as tensions mounted between the neighboring countries over themigrant crisis.[8]
As of 2022, the town was 93.8%Hungarian, 2.4%German, 2.1%Roma, 1.2%Croatian, and 0.8% of non-European origin. The population was 39.8%Roman Catholic, and 8.3%Reformed, and 14.6%nondenominational.[9]
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