Komlo

Komlo is a city in Baranya county, Hungary. The call of the agreement is derived from the nearby crop of hops, an component of beer. By the 18th century an outline of this plant jogging up a aid already featured at the bring in of the city. The former village of Komlo became a deliberate mining city at some stage in the socialist era. It became the second one largest mining centre in Hungary after Tatabanya. The region changed into inhabited by the Romans, the ruins of 2nd-century Roman villas have been found at some point of the laying of foundations for brand new homes within the location.

The existence of the as soon as village is first noted in a constitution from 1256 as 'villa Compleov, then a part of the estates of the Pecsvarad Abbey. Komlo became no longer abandoned in the course of the Turkish rule, but the populace changed into very scant. After 1945, Komlo changed into among those settlements whose growth right into a city become a particularly pressured affair directed by political selections. A figuring out element of its development was the function in coal mining. After extra than 100 years of operation mining within the location ceased on 1 January 2000.