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

Folk Art in Baranya County - permanent exhibition

Wars also played a major role iri shaping the map of nationalities in Baranya: during Rákóczi's war of independence Hungarians as well as Serbs reduced in numbers. A lot of Orthodoxes opted to the territory of the Serbo-CroatianSlovenian Kingdom after World War I, their memory is preserved almost only by churches, toponyms and cemeteries. After World War II the German-speaking community also significantly reduced - Hungarian settlers and refugees from the area of historical Hungary were relocated into the houses and on the lands of the expatriated. The Hungarian population of Baranya was categorized in ten main ethnographical groups on the basis of their material culture, customs, religion, linguistic phenomena, marital ties and identity. The most widely known of these is the Ormánság ethnographical group. The Ormánság region is situated along the rivers Dráva and Feketevíz, its inhabitants were Reformed. They can be distinguished from the neigbouring ethnographical groups on the basis of their characteristic women's garment called bikla in the first place, and also their headdresses marking age, their footed skeleton building, the enduring custom of white mourning, and their marital relations and family names. As a result of the single-child system that became widespread around the middle of the 19

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h century their number significantly decreased. The Reformed ethnographical group Romany settlement near Sellye. Before 1896, photograph by Károly Zelesny.