Gabčíkovo

Coordinates: 47°54′N 17°35′E / 47.900°N 17.583°E / 47.900; 17.583
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Gabčíkovo
Bős
Town
Gabčíkovo Dam
Gabčíkovo Dam
Car plate
DS
For the Danube dam, see Gabčíkovo–Nagymaros Dams.

Gabčíkovo (

Hungarians. After the Communist takeover of Czechoslovakia, the city was named after Jozef Gabčík, an important figure in the Czechoslovakian resistance to Nazi occupation
.

Name

The Hungarian name of the town was first recorded in 1102 as Beys and preserves the name of its erstwhile

Pecheneg
inhabitants, pecheneg being besenyő in Hungarian. The town appears in several documents between 1262 and 1274 as a borderguard Pecheneg settlement.

The current Slovak name of the town was given by the authorities in 1948 after

Operation Anthropoid, the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich
, Deputy Reich-Protector of Bohemia and Moravia.

Geography

Gabčíkovo is situated along the

Great Rye Island around 12 km south of Dunajská Streda bordered by Baka to the west, Vrakúň to the east, Pataš, Baloň, Sap and Ňárad to the southeast, and the Hungarian villages of Lipót and Ásványráró to the southwest. Administratively, the village belongs to the Trnava Region, Dunajská Streda District
.

Near to the village, there is the main part of the

Gabčíkovo Waterworks, which is the reason for a long-term dispute between Hungary
and the Slovak Republic.

History

In the 10th century, the territory of Gabčíkovo became part of the Kingdom of Hungary. In 1468, Hungarian king Matthias Corvinus gave Gabčíkovo, then known as Bős, the right of organizing a fair. It was part of Hungary and later Austria Hungary until the Treaty of Trianon. No plebiscites were allowed to take place despite the overwhelming majority of the population being Hungarian.

After the

Velvet Divorce, it was part of Czechoslovakia
. Since then it has been part of Slovakia.

Demography

In 1910, it had a population of 2823 of whom 2805 (99.36%) were listed as Hungarians (included Jews and Slovaks in the state service). After the Treaty of Trianon, more Slovaks started to move into the area. As of 2021, the population includes 5,232 inhabitants, of which 4,217 (80.6%) are Hungarians, and 727 (13.9%) are Slovaks.[7]

Genealogical resources

The records for genealogical research are available at the state archive "Statny Archiv in Bratislava, Slovakia"

  • Roman Catholic church records (births/marriages/deaths): 1720-1896 (parish A)

Twin towns – sister cities

See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in Slovakia

Gabčíkovois twinned with:[8]

References

  1. ^ "Počet obyvateľov podľa pohlavia - obce (ročne)". www.statistics.sk (in Slovak). Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic. 2022-03-31. Retrieved 2022-03-31.
  2. ^ a b "Hustota obyvateľstva - obce [om7014rr_ukaz: Rozloha (Štvorcový meter)]". www.statistics.sk (in Slovak). Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic. 2022-03-31. Retrieved 2022-03-31.
  3. ^ "Úrad geodézie, kartografie a katastra Slovenskej republiky - Registre obnovenej evidencie pozemkov".
  4. ^ a b c d "Základná charakteristika". www.statistics.sk (in Slovak). Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic. 2015-04-17. Retrieved 2022-03-31.
  5. ^ 2021 Census https://www.scitanie.sk/en/population/basic-results/structure-of-population-by-ethnicity/OB/SK0211501573/OB
  6. ^ a b "Hustota obyvateľstva - obce". www.statistics.sk (in Slovak). Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic. 2022-03-31. Retrieved 2022-03-31.
  7. ^ "2021 Census". www.scitanie.sk. 2021-01-01. Retrieved 2022-01-23.
  8. ^ "Partnerské obce" (in Slovak). Gabčíkovo. Retrieved 2021-09-28.

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