Vállaj
Vállaj is a village in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county, in the Northern Great Plain region of eastern Hungary. Vállaj is a settlement in the south-eastern corner of Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county, by the Kraszna river, next to the Hungarian-Romanian border. Geography It covers an area of and has a population of 1120 people (2015). History Vállaj's name appears in the 13th century as the property of the members of the Kusalyi Jakcs family. As early as 1335, it was listed in the deeds of the Gutkeled family as Vale. In 1354 it belonged to the monastery of the Gutkeled clan in Sárvár. In 1423 the Báthorians won a royal gift to him, and thus became part of the Ossetian estate, sharing his fate. From 1746 to 1945, the village belonged to the estate of Count Károlyiak. A separate chapter in the history of Vállaj is the introduction of native German speakers. The antecedents of this are to be found in the state of the country, and the most affected county of Satu Mare at that time: Due to famine, the number of serfs in the labor force of Szatmár County decreased. In 1712, for example, Csanálos, Fény and Vállaj were uninhabited for a short