Balkany

Balkany is a metropolis in Szabolcs-Szatmar-Bereg County, within the Northern Great Plain location of japanese Hungary. Balkany became first referred to in 1214. The meaning of its name refers it to a swamp or wetland. The first proprietors of the vicinity had been the Gut-Keled noble own family whose contributors acquired Balkany as a present from the king in 1289. Consequently, Balkany become divided up by the circle of relatives, the western element turned into given to Paul and Thomas Tamas, the eastern part changed into taken by way of Paul's son, Lawrence Lorinc. As a end result of attacks through the Ottoman

Turks and other nomadic tribes Balkany misplaced its inhabitants and have become a ghost metropolis until the overdue sixteenth century. In the early 18th century, the metropolis's population rose again, governance changed into shared a few of the most prosperous families inclusive of Bezdedy, Desy, Finta, Gencsy, Godeny , Guth, and Koczogh. In 1839, it became the biggest metropolis inside the county with a populace of 3,006.