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It lies south of the Villány Mountains, on the westernmost part of the Great Plain, on the Nyárád-Harkányi Plateau. In its neighborhood west of Harkány, while the village of Nagytótfalva is the next settlement. To the south is Matty, a few kilometers from Drara; the Croatian-Hungarian border is at the same time the river sections. It is the second southernmost town in Hungary in close competition with Harkány.

History

According to archaeological finds found in Siklóson and its surroundings, some thirty thousand years ago, at the end of the last ice age, mammoth hunters lived in this landscape. As a result of the climate, eight thousand years ago, the first farmers of the Körös-Starčevo culture migrated from today’s Mediterranean area. In the next millennia, groups of people from the Balkans have settled several times in this country, along with representatives of many other cultures.

I. e. From the 6th century, the Pannonian settled down the countryside, which was later conquered by the Romans in the middle of the first century, who were also the names of the province of Pannonia. But before that, i. e. At the end of the 4th century, Celts spreading the use of iron appeared here, leaving rich archaeological findings to our archaeologists today. The Celts are associated with the emergence of grape production and wine consumption in today’s Villány-Siklós wine region.

The Romans conquering the area completed the construction of the Pannónia road network by the middle of the second century, and by the end of the century the interconnected city network was established. The Roman road from the west of the Villány Mountains led to Sopianae from Murska (Osijek) passing by the area of ​​Siklós and Máriagyűd. In Baranya there were larger, interconnected settlements in Pécs (Sopianae) and Nagyharsány. Siklóson, previously identified with Serena, was unclear about the size and rank of settlement.

The Roman Empire 433 passed the area to the Huns, followed by the Germans, the Eastern Goths, and the Lombards. The Avar arrived here in the seventh century, whom the Franks conquered in 803. South Slavic peoples also appeared here later. In the future, the avarics still living in this area were melted and the Hungarian settlers receiving the Frankish Revival system arrived in Baranya only in the tenth century.

The Sukanus, Soklous branch of the Khan family dominated the southern part of Baranya, but it can be proven only from the 12th century. The members of the genus considered their common ancestor Magnus (Great or Old) Gyula, who II. He founded the future of his family in the yard of András. The Lord was a servant, a Transylvanian butterfly or a goddess in these years. Her son, descendants of Gyula Younger, were the Siklós branch of the family, mentioned first in a certificate of 1251. From the existence of the castle, the document of the Pécs, dated on November 30, 1294, is the first one to mention, mentioning “Mihály topordi son of Omone, the castle of Siklós”. The fortress was supposed to be offset by the fortress of Nagyharsány, which was already in existence in 1287, from the 1270s.

By the end of the 14th century the star of the Siklós fell: Pál Siklósi’s son Gyula King Sigismund confiscated the Siklós castle in 1387. He handed over to his newly-adherents, László Kakas and János Pásztói. The Siklós family was extinct by the end of the century, after the death of Laszlo Kakas, the castle was given to the Garai in 1395. The family who built significant holdings wanted to transfer their headquarters from Valkó County Gará to Siklós, so it was agreed with Miklós Siklósi, the last member of the family, to have six villages until the end of his life. The friend from the Garaias received twenty barrels of wine from the mountain hive that came to him, and even was appointed bishop of Ossero (Osor), Dalmatia.

Although he was an opponent of Zsigmond Miklós Garai’s senior, he sacrificed his life in defense of his dominant wife, Mary, when János Horváti returned to King Károly for killing. His son, younger Miklós Garai, however, had received the macedonian ban in 1387 and was one of the king’s most prominent supporters. In 1401, when János Kanizsai Archbishop and the Devil of Bebek Detre captured the ruler who did not listen to their word, offered his noble son as a hostage to Sigismund. At this time, from June to October 1401, the king stayed in the Siklós Castle. Garai agreed with the lords and became Zsigmond’s brother-in-law within the framework of the deal with the Cillei. Garai Cillei Annas, the dominant Cillei Borbala woman. For his services from 1402 until his death, until 1433 Miklós Garai wore the dignity of the reed. The wealth of the king’s brother-in-law is proved by the fact that Siklóson has been transformed by a large-scale construction site. From this age we have had many gothic details and the gothic chapel still intact. The family died in 1481, with the death of Jabai Jób, and the Siklós fortress, which returned to the monarch, was donated by the son of Hunyadi Mátyás, János Corvin, Slavonic. In 1494, however, he sold the fortress to András And Brother of Bajnai, who owned it until 1507. In that unclear circumstances, Imre Perenyi became the owner. He upgraded the castle of “Soklyos” of the Nádor. At this time there was a barbakan entrance to the castle, the Renaissance reconstruction of the dwellings, the Perényi-Charcoal Fireplace on the first floor. In 1515 Imre Perényi married the widow of Péter Geréb, Dorottya Kanizsai, who moved to Siklós. It is connected to the castle’s later destroyed but original Gothic balcony and the Dorottya Garden. After the death of Perenyi in 1519, he took control of the estates. His most remarkable act was that the battle of Mohács had gathered the fortress and buried the dead.

Malkocs bha’s mosque in Siklós After 1526 Siklóst was increasingly threatened by the Turks. On July 5, 1543, the time of the toughest siege came. The defenders gave up the hopeless fight after three days, and Siklós became part of the Turkish Empire. During the invasion, a crowded turkish garrison stationed here displaced the Christian population from the city center and taxed it. The vineyards of the town also benefited the Turks during this period. The Turks built a mosque in the castle, and today’s Franciscan temple has been converted into a Muslim place of worship. Evliya Cselebi, the Turkish traveler, mentions seven jams in the suburbs. Of these, Malkocs’s bushes were found in the twentieth century and restored. The success of the reconstruction is indicated by the Europa Nostra Award. Also, the occupiers built the first water pipeline system in Siklós, which included many cobblestone streets and a Turkish bath.