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Bakonypéterd is a village in Gyor-Moson-Sopron county in
Hungary near to City of Győr (29 km
south) in the Little Hungarian Plains. The village has got 272
inhabitants (2001 census), all of them are Hungarian.
Neighbouring settlements are Gyorasszonyfa, Ravazd, Gic, Románd
and Lázi villages.
The first mention of the settlement is from 1357. At the time of
the Turkish wars (1526-1699) the settlement was devastated. The
village was resettled by the Abbey of Pannonhalma with Germans in
the XVIII. century. In 1910 Bakonypéterd was a village in the
Zirc district of Veszprém County. Number of its inhabitants in
1910: 545; 480 (88,1%) German, 63 (11,6%) Hungarian and 2 (0,4%)
Slovakian by mother tongue, 538 (98,7%) Roman Catholic and 7
(1,3%) Calvinist by religion. After the WWII Germans was deported
to Germany. The settlement was joined to Gyor-Moson-Sopron county
in 1998.
The coat of arms and the flag was adopted in 2001.
Source: Resolution and coat of arms from the Mayor's Office.
Istvan Molnar, 21 May 2003