Schandorf is a village in the district of Oberwart in Burgenland in Austria. The earliest record of the village's existence dates to 1244. In the first half of the 1500s the region was devastated by attacking Turkish troops, and villages were depopulated. The Hungarian magnate Franz Batthyány arranged for Schandorf and other villages to be repopulated by immigrants from Croatia, and for centuries, the village was an island of Croatian language and culture surrounded by speakers of Hungari… (More on Schandorf)