According to some sources the area was settled by Walloon settlers, who brought viticulture to the area; the name of the village possibly comes from the French word taille (meaning "cutting", referring that the trees of forests on the hills had to be cut so that vine can grow there).

A letter by Bishop Andrew from 1272 mentions that after the Mongol invasion (1241–42) Italians settled down in the area.

In 1631 Ferdinand II gave the town right to hold a market and exempted its citizens from taxes.

Anyone who wanted to settle down in Tállya was exempt from paying taxes for 12 years if he plants a vineyard.

After the war the population started to decrease mostly because the village's distance from main roads, the lack of markets for wine, the decreasing price of wine, and the Socialist régime's industrial politics which tended to favor the major cities over smaller settlements.