Hodod

Hodod, known in Hungarian as Hadad, was a market town and castle in the hills of Szilágyság. Its history was long bound to the Jakcs noble family, whose estates included the castle and the town. In 1584 Prince Stephen Báthory granted Hodod, Jibou and other possessions to his treasurer Ferenc Wesselényi. The family made Hadad one of its centres, and in the eighteenth century its owners invited German settlers to the estate.