Begovácz Rózsa – Burján István – Vándor Andrea: Folk Art in Baranya County (Pécs, 2008)

Folk Art in Baranya County - permanent exhibition

Folk Art in Baranya County - permanent exhibition The extremely complex ethnographical picture determining the folk culture of Baranya county in the end of the 19

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h century began to develop as early as before the Turkish occupation. Data from the 13

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h and 14

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h centuries already show immigration of Croats, and from the 15

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h century the settling of Serbs started. During the Turkish occupation the slow, spontaneous settlement of Slavic-speaking people continued, this is the period when new waves of catholic Croatian - Sokac, Bosnian groups escaping from the Turks arrived. The first organized settlements after the occupation were carried out in the end of the 17

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h century - Serbs lead by the patriarch Charnoyevich settled in great numbers in Baranya. The first German-speaking immigrants who also arrived in the end of the 17

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h century were located in several waves in the area of the Swabische Türkei. The presence of Gypsy inhabitants has been known since the 1300s. The Kolompárs involved in metal work and the Beás grooving hutches and making wooden tools fitted into the division of labour of traditional peasant society. After the aggressive settlings beginning from the 1950s and after the decomposition of traditional rural society the often wandering Gypsy groups living in isolated communities lost their former characteristic handicraft trade. Reformed Hungarians from Mohács. Before 1896, photograph by Károly Zelesny.