Košúty, Martin Explained

Košúty
Settlement Type:Borough
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name:Slovakia
Subdivision Type2:Region
Subdivision Name2:Žilina
Subdivision Type3:District
Subdivision Name3:Martin District
Subdivision Type4:Municipality
Subdivision Name4:Martin
Pushpin Map:Slovakia
Pushpin Map Caption:Location of Košúty in Slovakia
Coordinates:49.09°N 18.9342°W
Established Title:First mentioned
Established Date:1397
Population Density Km2:auto
Footnotes:Source[1]

Košúty (Hungarian: Kossuth) is a borough of Martin, Slovakia. Košúty was initially a separate village, it has been merged in 1919 with a neighboring village Priekopa and it became a borough of Martin in 1949.

The first written mention of Košúty was in 1397 as a village named Cosuthfalua, when belonged to the Kingdom of Hungary. The name is derived from a personal name of Slavic origin Košút (the Hungarian transcription Kossuth, see also etymology). This is supported also by another record stating that the village was owned by Andrew, son of Kosuth and by its later name Udwarch a. n. Kosswthfalwa – "Court or Košut's village" (1489).[2]

The history of the village is closely tied to the House of Kossuth.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Mestská a obecná štatistika SR . Statistics.sk . 2010-01-31 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090621123522/http://www.statistics.sk/mosmis/eng/run.html . June 21, 2009 .
  2. Rudolf . Krajčovič . Z lexiky stredovekej slovenčiny s výkladmi názvov obcí a miest (24) . Kultúra slova . 2010 . 6 . 343 . Vydavateľstvo Matice slovenskej . Martin . Slovak .