Vrakúň

Vrakúň (Hungarian: Nyékvárkony, Hungarian pronunciation:[ˈɲeːkvaːrkoɲ]) is a village and municipality in the Dunajská Streda District in the Trnava Region of south-west Slovakia.

Vrakúň

Nyékvárkony
village
The reformed church
Location of the village
Coordinates: 47°56′00″N 17°36′00″E
Country Slovakia
RegionTrnava
DistrictDunajská Streda
Named forAba (old Hungarian name)
Government
 • MayorÁkos Horváth (Party of the Hungarian Coalition)
Area
 • Total38.336 km2 (14.802 sq mi)
Elevation
114 m (374 ft)
Population
 (2001)[3]
 • Total2,537
 • Estimate 
(2008)
2,588
 • Density68/km2 (180/sq mi)
Ethnicity
 • Hungarians92,67%
 • Slovaks7,09%
Time zoneUTC+1 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (EEST)
Postal Code
930 25
Area code(s)+421 31
Websitewww.vrakun.sk

History
"Kopjafa" - Memorial of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848/49

The present-day municipality was formed in 1940 being when Várkony (Vrakúň) and Csallóköznyék (Nekyje na Ostrove) villages were unified under the name of Nyékvárkony by the Hungarian authorities.

Vrakúň (Várkony) is an ancient settlement, it existed already in the Avar age and its name is connected to the Oiarchunítani name. The village was first recorded in 1015. It was the age-old estate of the Amadé Family. Nyék was first recorded in 1165, it had first been the tribal territory of the Nyék tribe, later the village belonged to the Pozsony Castle. King Stephen III of Hungary granted nobility for the inhabitants of the village. In 1245, the village was donated to Neku son of Nech and his brother Peter son of Chueg by a charter of King Béla IV of Hungary in which the village is mentioned as Neeku. Until the end of World War I, both component villages were part of Hungary and fell within the Dunaszerdahely district of Pozsony County. After the Austro-Hungarian army disintegrated in November 1918, Czechoslovak troops occupied the area. After the Treaty of Trianon of 1920, the villages became officially part of Czechoslovakia. In November 1938, the First Vienna Award granted the area to Hungary and it was held by Hungary until 1945. After Soviet occupation in 1945, Czechoslovak administration returned and the village became officially part of Czechoslovakia in 1947.

Demography

In 1910, Csallóköznyék had had 643, while Várkony had 866, for the most part, Hungarian inhabitants. At the 2001 Census the recorded population of the village was 2537 while an end-2008 estimate by the Statistical Office had the villages's population also as 2588. As of 2001, 92.67 per cent of its population was Hungarian while 7.09 per cent was Slovak.

Roman Catholicism is the majority religion of the village, its adherents numbering 93.61% of the total population.[3]

Geography

The municipality lies at an altitude of 114 metres and covers an area of 38.336 km2.

References
  1. Local election results by the Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic, December 2006 Archived 2011-08-11 at the Wayback Machine
  2. Local election 2010 results by the Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic Archived 2011-08-11 at the Wayback Machine
  3. "Urban and Municipal Statistics MOŠ". Archived from the original on 2011-02-26.
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