Majs Explained

Official Name:Majs
Other Name:Maisch
Pushpin Map:Hungary
Pushpin Map Caption:Location of Majs
Coordinates:45.9095°N 18.5989°W
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Type1:County
Subdivision Name1:Baranya County
Area Total Km2:32.06
Population Total:1077
Population As Of:2004
Population Density Km2:33.59
Timezone:CET
Utc Offset:+1
Timezone Dst:CEST
Utc Offset Dst:+2
Postal Code Type:Postal code
Postal Code:7783
Area Code:69
Website:https://majs.hu/

Majs (German: Maisch; Serbian: Мајша|Majša or Serbian: Мајиш, romanized: Serbian: Majiš) is a village in Baranya County, Hungary. Residents are Magyars, with a minority of Danube Swabians and Serbs.

Until the end of World War II, the majority of the inhabitants were Danube Swabians, also called locally as Stifolder, because their ancestors arrived in the 17th and 18th centuries from Fulda (district).[1] Most of the former German settlers were expelled to allied-occupied Germany and allied-occupied Austria in 1945–1948, pursuant to the Potsdam Agreement.[2] Only a few Germans of Hungary live there, the majority today are the descendants of Hungarians from the Czechoslovak–Hungarian population exchange. They occupied the houses of the former Danube Swabian inhabitants.

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  1. Web site: Feked - Stifolder_tortenet.pdf . feked.hu.
  2. Web site: Die Vertreibung – Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Ungarn .