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vizsla

The rust-gold Hungarian pointer has been bred since the Middle Ages; its name is Hungarian but probably borrowed from a Slavic word for a hunting dog (Czech vyžle, Polish wyżeł). German and American breeders kept the Hungarian name.

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1357Hungarian

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