Felsoszölnök
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Felsőszölnök is a village in Vas 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...

. It is the westernmost point of Hungary, and lies on the borders with Slovenia and Austria.

Location

The nearest settlements are Oberdrosen in Jennersdorf
Jennersdorf (district)
Bezirk Jennersdorf is a district of the state ofBurgenland in Austria.-Municipalities:Towns are indicated in boldface; market towns in italics; suburbs, hamlets and other subdivisions of a municipality are indicated in small characters.* Deutsch Kaltenbrunn** Rohrbrunn* Eltendorf** Zahling*...

, Burgenland
Burgenland
Burgenland is the easternmost and least populous state or Land of Austria. It consists of two Statutarstädte and seven districts with in total 171 municipalities. It is 166 km long from north to south but much narrower from west to east...

 to the northwest, and Neradnovci in the Municipality of Gornji Petrovci
Gornji Petrovci
Gornji Petrovci is a town and a municipality in Slovenia. The municipality includes 14 villages, represented in the municipal coat of arms by fourteen simplified blue houses. The shield also includes a heraldic otter holding a golden fish...

, Slovenia to the south.

Culture

The Alliance of Hungarian Slovenes has its seat in Felsőszölnök, there is a preschool with education in Slovene, and Slovene is taught in the primary school.

The Martinje
Martinje
Martinje is a village in the Gornji Petrovci Municipality in the Prekmurje region of Slovenia, right on the border with Hungary.-External links:*...

-Felsőszölnök border crossing between Hungary and Slovenia was opened in 1992, resulting in more frequent contacts between the districts in the neighbouring countries.

Twin cities

  • Kuzma
    Kuzma
    Kuzma may refer to:Locations*Kuzma , a municipality in SloveniaPeople*Kuzma is a Russian name, a form of Cosmas*Kuzma Minin, Russian merchant and hero of the Polish-Muscovite War...

    , Slovenia
    Slovenia
    Slovenia , officially the Republic of Slovenia , is a country in Central and Southeastern Europe touching the Alps and bordering the Mediterranean. Slovenia borders Italy to the west, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north, and also has a small portion of...

  • Sankt Martin an der Raab
    Sankt Martin an der Raab
    Sankt Martin an der Raab is a town in the district of Jennersdorf in Burgenland in Austria....

    , Austria
    Austria
    Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...


External links

  • Felsőszölnök (in Hungarian
    Hungarian language
    Hungarian is a Uralic language, part of the Ugric group. With some 14 million speakers, it is one of the most widely spoken non-Indo-European languages in Europe....

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