Kölked is a village in Baranya county, Hungary. Until the end of World War II, the inhabitants were Danube Swabians. Most of the former German settlers were expelled to Germany and Austria in 1945–1948, as a result of the Potsdam Agreement. Only a few Germans of Hungary live there, the majority today are the descendants of Hungarians from the Czechoslovak–Hungarian population exchange.
Demographics
In 2001, the population of Baranya county numbered 407,448 inhabitants, including:
- Hungarians = 375,611 (92.19%)
- Germans = 22,720 (5.58%)
- Romani = 10,623 (2.61%)
- Croats = 7,294 (1.79%)
- others.
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