Syvlyush

Syvlyush, known in Hungarian as Nagyszőlős, lies near the Tisza beneath the volcanic hill of Kankiv. Its name was recorded in 1262 as Zceuleus. The town passed to the Perényi family around the end of the fourteenth century. About 1505 a Franciscan monastery was founded on land intended for a castle, with the Perényis as its patrons. The town's setting joined the vineyards of the hills to the river plain below.