Bodrogolaszi

Bodrogolaszi is a village in the Sárospatak District of Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County. It's population in 2024 was 807.

The village located on the banks of the Bodrog River, approximately 75 kilometers east of the county seat, Miskolc, in the southwestern neighborhood of Sárospatak. Apart from the latter city, it has only three neighboring settlements: it borders Sárazsadány to the southwest, and Tolcsva and Komlóska to the northwest.

The settlement was first mentioned in 1244 when King Béla IV brought Italian vineyard workers to the area. However, its church was already mentioned in 1201.

In 1404, the Perényi family owned the land, but by 1444, the Pálóczi family also had property there. In 1504, Imre Perényi donated his part of the land to the Pauline monks of Trebišov.

In the 19th century, it became the property of the Lónyay family; in 1808, it was owned by Gábor Lónyay, and in the early 1900s, by Count Elemér Lónyay and his wife Archduchess Stefánia, who had a beautiful castle here, which Elemér Lónyay's father, Ödön Lónyay, had built in the 1860s.

In 2022, 93.2% of the population identified as Hungarian, 0.4% as Roma, 0.1% each as Romanian, Rusyn, and Slovak, and 1% as other non-local nationalities (6.8% did not respond; due to dual identities, the total may exceed 100%). Regarding religion, 24.4% were Roman Catholic, 16.9% Reformed, 16% Greek Catholic, 3% other Christian, 0.1% Lutheran, and 4.6% non-religious (34.7% did not answer).^[1]

• Borovszky Samu: Zemplén County