municipality
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The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...
and village in the
Levice District
Levice District ( sk, okres Levice; hu, Lévai járás) is a district in
the Nitra Region of western Slovakia. It is the largest of Slovakia's 79 districts.
The west of the district was in the Hungarian county
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in the south-west of
Slovakia
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, in 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 ...
.
It was formed in 1952 by a merger of the villages Dolné Brhlovce ( hu, Tegzesborfő) and Horné Brhlovce ( hu, Kálnaborfő).
It lies some 10 km east of
Levice
Levice (; hu, Léva, Hungarian pronunciation: ; german: Lewenz, literally lionesses) is a town in western Slovakia. The town lies on the left bank of the lower Hron river. The Old Slavic name of the town was ''Leva'', which means "the Left On ...
. It is known mainly for its troglodyte-like excavated dwellings, cut into the volcanic sub-layer, that have been proposed for the
UNESCO World Heritage List
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.
The excavated dwellings are said to have been constructed by the local people in the 16th and 17th centuries in order to "hide the village" and avoid the Turkish raids. They did not want to build normal ground-level houses because these would be visible from afar.
Brhlovce has a population of 329 people and an area of 13.385 km².Mestská a obecná štatistika SR