Bátorove Kosihy | |
Other Name: | Bátorkeszi |
Settlement Type: | Municipality |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type2: | Region |
Subdivision Type3: | District |
Subdivision Name3: | Komárno District |
Pushpin Map: | Slovakia Nitra Region#Slovakia |
Pushpin Relief: | 1 |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Bajč in the Nitra Region##Location of Bajč in Slovakia |
Coordinates: | 47.8308°N 18.4108°W |
Named For: | Bátor refers to the Báthory-family, Keszi is the name of a Hungarian tribe |
Government Footnotes: | [1] |
Leader Party: | SMK-MKP |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Leader Name: | Roland Labancz |
Established Title: | First mentioned |
Established Date: | 1156 |
Area Footnotes: | [2] |
Area Total Km2: | 45.88 |
Elevation Footnotes: | [3] |
Elevation M: | 132 |
Population Footnotes: | [4] |
Population Total: | 3305 |
Demographics Type1: | Ethnicity |
Demographics1 Title1: | Hungarians |
Demographics1 Info1: | 83,38 % |
Demographics1 Title2: | Slovaks |
Demographics1 Info2: | 15,59 |
Timezone1: | CET |
Utc Offset1: | +1 |
Timezone1 Dst: | CEST |
Utc Offset1 Dst: | +2 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Postal Code: | 946 34 |
Area Code: | +421 35 |
Blank Name: | Car plate |
Blank Info: | KN |
Bátorove Kosihy (Hungarian: Bátorkeszi, NaNb) is a village and municipality in the Komárno District in the Nitra Region of south-west Slovakia.
The village was named after the Magyar tribe Keszi.[5]
It was inhabited by the Avars as shown by an 8th-century cemetery found by archeologists. The village was first recorded in 1156 by its Hungarian name as villa Kesceu. In the 16th century, it became the estate of the Báthory-family, which is reflected by its name.
Until the end of World War I, the village was part of Hungary and fell within the Párkány district of Esztergom. After the Austro-Hungarian army disintegrated in November 1918, Czechoslovak troops occupied the area. After the Treaty of Trianon of 1920, the village 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.
In 1910, the village had 3144, for the most part, Hungarian inhabitants. At the 2001 Census the recorded population of the village was 3514 while an end-2008 estimate by the Statistical Office had the village's population also as 3475. As of 2001, 83,38 per cent of its population was Hungarian while 15,59 per cent was Slovak.
Roman Catholicism is the majority religion of the village, its adherents numbering 66.68% of the total population.
The village has a public library, a gym and a football pitch. It also has a DVD rental store.
The village is twinned with: