GabÄÃkovo
Gabčíkovo ( until 1948 slovak " Beš "; rarely Boesch German, Hungarian Bős ) is a municipality in southwestern Slovakia. It lies on the Great Rye Island in the Danube lowland, about 10 km from Dunajská Streda and 60 km from Bratislava.
The community was first written in 1102 as Beys, 1264 then mentioned as Terra castri Zolgageur Bews. It was probably in the early 11th century and was in the early Hungarian state a border town where the Pechenegs proven a near ford. From the 13th century until the abolition of serfdom in 1848, the family Amade, or Üchtritz - Amade reigned in the place. 1468 was the place of Matthias Corvinus the right to hold weekly markets. In the 16th century, some German colonists were settled, so the village was divided into a German and a Hungarian part.
Until 1918, the city of the Kingdom of Hungary in the county of Pressburg was and then came newly formed Czechoslovakia. By the First Vienna Award, the community came back to Hungary from 1938 to 1945. In 1948, the town was renamed in honor of the Slovak military and Heydrich bomber Jozef Gabčík Gabčíkovo. In 1997, a referendum on the application for the purchase of municipal rights took place, due to low voter turnout, however, he was not valid.
The place is known inside and outside of Slovakia, the Danube hydropower plant Gabčíkovo, whose construction has led to diplomatic problems between Hungary and Slovakia.
According to the 2001 census, the town had 5084 inhabitants, of whom 4598 Magyars ( 90.44 %), 417 Slovaks ( 8.20% ), 31 Czechs (0.61 % ) and others.