Olasz
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Olasz is a village in Baranya
county, Hungary
. The name of the village is ultimately a Hungarianised term derived from the German
word walha
which Hungarians otherwise use as a root for their exonym of Italy
(Olaszország).
More Info: http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olasz_%28telep%C3%BCl%C3%A9s%29
Baranya (county)
Baranya is the name of an administrative county in present Hungary, in the Baranya region, and also in the former Kingdom of Hungary ....
county, Hungary
Hungary
Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...
. The name of the village is ultimately a Hungarianised term derived from the German
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
word walha
Walha
Walhaz is a reconstructed Proto-Germanic word, meaning "foreigner", "stranger", "Roman", "Romance-speaker", or "Celtic-speaker". The adjective derived from this word can be found in , Old High German walhisk, meaning "Romance", in Old English welisċ, wælisċ, wilisċ, meaning "Romano-British" and in...
which Hungarians otherwise use as a root for their exonym of Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
(Olaszország).
More Info: http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olasz_%28telep%C3%BCl%C3%A9s%29