Official Name: | Baka |
Settlement Type: | village |
Pushpin Map: | Slovakia |
Pushpin Label Position: | none |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 250 |
Pushpin Relief: | 1 |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of the village |
Coordinates: | 47.9°N 17.5333°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Region |
Subdivision Name1: | Trnava |
Subdivision Type2: | District |
Subdivision Name2: | Dunajská Streda |
Established Title: | First written mention |
Established Date: | 1264 |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Leader Name: | Erzsébet Csizik[1] [2] |
Area Total Km2: | 19.98[3] |
Elevation M: | 115[4] |
Population Footnotes: | [5] |
Population Total: | 1126[6] |
Population Est: | 1130 |
Pop Est As Of: | 2008 |
Population Density Km2: | 56.58[7] |
Demographics Type1: | Ethnicity |
Demographics1 Title1: | Hungarians |
Demographics1 Info1: | 92,50% |
Demographics1 Title2: | Slovaks |
Demographics1 Info2: | 6,95% |
Timezone: | EET |
Utc Offset: | +1 |
Timezone Dst: | EEST |
Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal Code |
Postal Code: | 930 04 |
Area Code: | +421 31 |
Population Density Sq Mi: | 21.85 |
Area Total Sq Mi: | 7.71 |
Elevation Ft: | 377 |
Baka (in Hungarian pronounced as /ˈbɒkɒ/) is a village and municipality in the Dunajská Streda District in the Trnava Region of south-west Slovakia.
It has a football club, the FC BAKA.
The municipality lies at an altitude of 115 metres and covers an area of 19.989 km². It has a population of about 1130 people.
In the 9th century, the territory of Baka became part of the Kingdom of Hungary.In historical records the village was first mentioned in 1264.After the Austro-Hungarian army disintegrated in November 1918, Czechoslovak troops occupied the area, later acknowledged internationally by the Treaty of Trianon. Between 1938 and 1945 Baka once more became part of Miklós Horthy's Hungary through the First Vienna Award. From 1945 until the Velvet Divorce, it was part of Czechoslovakia. Since then it has been part of Slovakia.
The records for genealogical research are available at the state archive in Bratislava (sk|Štátny archív v Bratislave)