Adács is a village in

Heves County Heves county (, ) lies in northern Hungary, between the right bank of the river Tisza and the Mátra and Bükk mountains. It shares borders with the Hungarian counties Pest (county), Pest, Nógrád (county), Nógrád, Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén and ...

Northern Hungary Northern Hungary (, ) is a region in Hungary. As a statistical region it includes the counties Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén, Heves and Nógrád, but in colloquial speech it usually also refers to Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county. The region is in the ...

Region,

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. Its name comes from the old Hungarian personal name Ada, with the ''-cs'' suffix. The personal name may have its root in the ''ad'' verb, meaning "give". It was recorded as ''Ada'' in 1292. The area was inhabited intermittently according to archaeological evidence as early as the Late Bronze Age. Jews lived in Adács in the 18th and 19th centuries. In 1944, most of the village's Jews were murdered in the Holocaust.Jewish censuses in Hungary
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Populated places in Heves County {{Heves-geo-stub