Vlčany

Vlčany (Slovak to 1948 " Farkašd "; Hungarian Vágfarkasd - to 1907 Farkasd ) is a municipality in western Slovakia.

Location

It lies in the Danubian Lowland on the banks of the Vah about 15 km south of Šaľa away.

History

The village was first mentioned in 1113 as Forcas. The village has two churches. A reformed from 1785 and a Catholic from 1807 until 1918 the place in the county Neutra the Kingdom of Hungary was, then came to the newly created Czechoslovakia, but was due to the First Vienna Award of 1938 until 1945 a part of Hungary. Since 1993 he is a part of present-day Slovakia.

The inhabited by a large majority of Hungarians place ( 2001: 73 percent of the population ) are contributed in 1948 the Slovak name " Farkašd ", this was because of his great linguistic proximity to the Hungarian word Farkas ( German Wolf) in the Slovak equivalent " Vlčany " ( Vlk = Wolf) renamed.

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