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Swabian Turkey
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English
Etymology
Because the region had previously been controlled by Turks, and some of the settlers were Swabians.
Proper noun
A region of southwestern Hungary inhabited by an ethnic German minority who settled there, beginning in the late 1600s after the land was conquered from the Ottoman Empire, from the Palatinate, Hesse, Swabia, Bavaria and elsewhere.
Translations
region
Czech: cs Švábské Turecko
Dutch: nl Zwabisch Turkije
French: fr Turquie Souabe
German: de Schwäbische Türkei
Hungarian: hu Sváb-Törökország
Romanian: ro Turcia Svăbească