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by Istvan Molnar, 5 March 2003
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Bakonycsernye (in Slovakian: Cerna) is a village in Fejér
county in Hungary near to Town of Mór (15 km west) in the Gaja
Valley of the Bakony Mountains. The village has got 3189
inhabitants (2001 census), nearly all of them are Hungarian, only
38 (1,2%) Slovakian, 12 (0,4%) Gipsy and 7 (0,2%) German by
ethnicity. Two of the Official Ethnic Minorities of Hungary has
got ethnic council in the village: Slovaks and Gipsies.
Neighbouring settlements are Súr, Szápár, Jásd, Tés,
Isztimér, Balinka and Nagyveleg villages.
The first mention of the settlement is from 1341, but some of the
settlements on the nowadays territory of Csernye was mentioned
earlier. The name of the settlement is Slav - Cerny means black.
The villages were devastated at the time of the Turkish war.
1724-1726 Csernye was resettled with Lutheran Slovaks from Nyitra
and Trencsén counties (now Slovakia). In 1910 Csernye was a
village in the Zirc district of Veszprém County. Number of its
inhabitants in 1910: 2054; 1832 (89,2%) Hungarian, 219 (10,7%)
Slovakian and 3 (0,1%) other by mother tongue, 1543 (75,1%)
Lutheran, 384 (18,7%) Roman Catholic, 90 (4,4%) Calvinist and 37
(1,8%) other by religion. After the WWII about 500 of the
Slovakin inhabitants had moved to Slovakia. In 1956 the village
was annexed to Fejér county
Symbolism of the Coat of Arms: The hills relate to the
Bakony Mountains, the castle on the hill relates to the medieval
castl