Villany

Villany is a city in Baranya county, Hungary that is well-known for its wine. Residents are Hungarians, with minority of Serbs. The name derives from the Hungarian phrase for lightning, villam. Formerly, the settlement changed into recorded under this form of name. After the Ottoman occupation till 1918, VILLANY turned into a part of the Austrian monarchy, province of Hungary; in Transleithania after the compromise of 1867 within the Kingdom of Hungary. A submit-workplace changed into opened give up of 1867 depending from Oedenburg Post Directorate.

The metropolis is positioned inside the come across of 3 big geographical regions: the Great Hungarian Plain from the south, Baranya Hills from the north, and in the end Villány Mountains border it from the west. On the obvious, agricultural interest is not unusual. The mountains and the hills offer a suitable place for wine generating. A fossil web page known as "Villány locality 6" or "Villány-Kalkberg Süd" has yielded many vertebrate fossils from Lower Pleistocene.