Sóly
Encyclopedia
Sóly is a village in Veszprém county
, Hungary
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Veszprém (county)
Veszprém is the name of an administrative county in Hungary. Veszprém is also the name of the capital city of Veszprém county.-Veszprém 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...
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Sights
- Reformed church: King Stephen I of Hungary built a chapel in Sóly. The final battle against KoppányKoppányKoppány was a Hungarian nobleman of the tenth century. Brother of the ruling prince of Hungary, Géza of the Árpád dynasty, Koppány ruled as Prince of Somogy in the region south of Lake Balaton...
happened in the vicinity of the village. The is a royal charter about this chapel from 1009, connecting the Sóly church to the first Christian Hungarian King Stephen.
- Royal Sword: A statue erected in 1998 remembering the final battle between Koppány and István and the Árpád dynastyÁrpád dynastyThe Árpáds or Arpads was the ruling dynasty of the federation of the Hungarian tribes and of the Kingdom of Hungary . The dynasty was named after Grand Prince Árpád who was the head of the tribal federation when the Magyars occupied the Carpathian Basin, circa 895...
. This is the largest sword in the world, made from wood.