Žikava is a
village
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and
municipality
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in
Zlaté Moravce District
Zlaté Moravce District (Slovak: ''okres Zlaté Moravce'') is a district in the Nitra Region of western Slovakia. Located in lowhills area, the industry is concentrated mostly in district seat town Zlaté Moravce, which is also the largest town in ...
of the
Nitra Region
The Nitra Region ( sk, Nitriansky kraj, ; hu, Nyitrai kerület) is one of the administrative regions of Slovakia. It was first established in 1923 and from 1996 exists in its present borders. It consists of seven districts ( sk, okres) and 354 m ...
, in western-central
Slovakia
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. In 2011 it had a population of 514 inhabitants.
History
In
historical records the
village
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was first mentioned in 1075 : Sikula or Sichoua, Sichoa (in 1209), Sitva (1293), Zikawa (1773), Žikawa (1808). The Hungarian name is Zsikva (Phonetics : ''Sykava'').
The village belongs to
John Both de Bajna
Baron John Both de Bajna ( hr, Ivan Bot od Bajne, hu, bajnai Both János ; ? – 1493) was a Hungarian nobleman from the Both family, who served as, alongside Emeric Derencsényi, Ban of Croatia, Slavonia and Dalmatia in 1493. His brother, And ...
in 1492. A branch of this family will take the name of this village : the
Both
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, next Burchad, Bélavary de Sykava.
Geography
The
municipality
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lies at an
altitude
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of 281 metres and covers an
area
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of 11.291 km². It has a
population
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of 514 inhabitants.
[http://portal.statistics.sk/files/obce-pohl-vek.pdf ]
References
External links
*http://www.e-obce.sk/obec/zikava/zikava.html
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Villages and municipalities in Zlaté Moravce District