Ács (german: Atsch) is a town in Komárom-Esztergom county, northern

Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia a ...

Geography

Ács is located in

Komárom District Komárom ( hu, Komáromi járás) is a district in north-western part of Komárom-Esztergom County. ''Komárom'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Central Transdanubia Statistical Region ...

on the eastern side of the

Little Hungarian Plain The Little Hungarian Plain or Little Alföld ( Hungarian: ''Kisalföld'', Slovak: ''Malá dunajská kotlina'', German: ''Kleine Ungarische Tiefebene'') is a plain (tectonic basin) of approximately 8,000 km² in northwestern Hungary, south- ...

near where the Concó River enters the

Danube The Danube ( ; ) is a river that was once a long-standing frontier of the Roman Empire and today connects 10 European countries, running through their territories or being a border. Originating in Germany, the Danube flows southeast for , pa ...

. It is below the Bársonyosi Hills, at the point where the Székes joins the Concó, three kilometer south of the Danube and eight kilometers southwest of the city of

Komárno Komárno, ( hu, Komárom, german: Komorn, sr, Коморан, translit=Komoran), colloquially also called ''Révkomárom, Öregkomárom, Észak-Komárom'' in Hungarian language, Hungarian; is a town in Slovakia at the confluence of the Danube an ...

History

Ács was a settlement in Roman times, in the province of

Pannonia Pannonia (, ) was a province of the Roman Empire bounded on the north and east by the Danube, coterminous westward with Noricum and upper Italy, and southward with Dalmatia and upper Moesia. Pannonia was located in the territory that is now wes ...

. There were two Roman

castra In the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire, the Latin word ''castrum'', plural ''castra'', was a military-related term. In Latin usage, the singular form ''castrum'' meant 'fort', while the plural form ''castra'' meant 'camp'. The singular and ...

, ''Ad Mures'' and ''Ad Statuas'', in the area. An early mention in the 13th century called the place ''Iwan de As''; and a document in 1346 called it ''Alchy''. In 1970 it was declared a large commune ('' Nagyközség''); and on 1 July 2007 it received town status. Ács légifotó

Twin towns – sister cities

Ács is twinned with: *

Zlatná na Ostrove Zlatná na Ostrove ( hu, Csallóközaranyos, ) is a village and municipality in the Komárno District in the Nitra Region of south-west Slovakia. Geography The village lies at an altitude of 120 metres and covers an area of 35.407 km². I ...

, Slovakia *

Brăduț Brăduț ( ro, Brăduț; hu, Bardóc) is a commune in Covasna County, Transylvania, Romania composed of four villages: Brăduț, Doboșeni (''Székelyszáldobos''), Filia (''Erdőfüle''), Tălișoara (''Olasztelek''). Demographics The commune ...

, Romania * Steinau, Germany

Notes and references

External links

* in Hungarian
Street map (Hungarian)

Aerial photographs of Ács
{{DEFAULTSORT:Acs Populated places in Komárom-Esztergom County