Vrakúň Explained

Official Name:Vrakúň
Native Name Lang:hu
Other Name:Nyékvárkony
Settlement Type:village
Pushpin Map:Slovakia
Pushpin Label Position:none
Pushpin Mapsize:250
Pushpin Relief:1
Pushpin Map Caption:Location of the village
Coordinates:47.9333°N 17.6°W
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Type1:Region
Subdivision Name1:Trnava
Subdivision Type2:District
Subdivision Name2:Dunajská Streda
Established Title:First written mention
Named For:Aba (old Hungarian name)
Government Footnotes:[1] [2]
Leader Party:Party of the Hungarian Coalition
Leader Title:Mayor
Leader Name:Ákos Horváth
Area Total Km2:38.33[3]
Elevation M:114[4]
Population Footnotes:[5]
Population Total:2835[6]
Population Est:2588
Pop Est As Of:2008
Population Density Km2:73.42[7]
Demographics Type1:Ethnicity
Demographics1 Title1:Hungarians
Demographics1 Info1:92,67%
Demographics1 Title2:Slovaks
Demographics1 Info2:7,09%
Timezone:EET
Utc Offset:+1
Timezone Dst:EEST
Utc Offset Dst:+2
Postal Code Type:Postal Code
Postal Code:930 25
Area Code:+421 31
Population Density Sq Mi:28.35
Area Total Sq Mi:14.80
Elevation Ft:374

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

Etymology

According to professor Šimon Ondruš (1990),Vrakúň is of Slavic origin, from Proto-Slavic vorkъ (in East Slavic languages: vorok - a fence, a barrier),[8] but documented only for the East Slavs.

History

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.

Geography

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

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Notes and References

  1. http://app.statistics.sk/oso_2006/angl/obvod/results/tab10.jsp?sr=2&obvod=201 Local election results by the Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic, December 2006
  2. http://app.statistics.sk/kv2010/sr/tab9.jsp?lang=en&sr=2&obvod=201 Local election 2010 results by the Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic
  3. Web site: Hustota obyvateľstva - obce [om7014rr_ukaz: Rozloha (Štvorcový meter)] ]. sk . 2022-03-31 . www.statistics.sk . Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic. 2022-03-31.
  4. Web site: Základná charakteristika . sk . 2015-04-17 . www.statistics.sk . Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic. 2022-03-31.
  5. Web site: Urban and Municipal Statistics MOŠ. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20110226112651/http://app.statistics.sk/mosmis/eng/run.html. 2011-02-26.
  6. Web site: Počet obyvateľov podľa pohlavia - obce (ročne) . sk . 2022-03-31 . www.statistics.sk . Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic. 2022-03-31.
  7. Web site: Hustota obyvateľstva - obce . sk . 2022-03-31 . www.statistics.sk . Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic. 2022-03-31.
  8. Šimon . Ondruš . Rača, Vrača > Brača, Vrakuňa a vrkoč . Slovenská reč . 1990 . 1 . 28 . Slovak .