Hont is a village in
Nógrád County
Nógrád ( hu, Nógrád megye, ; sk, Novohradská župa) is a county ( hu, megye) of Hungary. It sits on the northern edge of Hungary and borders Slovakia.
Description
Nógrád county lies in northern Hungary. It shares borders with Slovakia an ...
in
Hungary
Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the ...
.
Location
Hont is located on left bank of river
Ipoly about 77 kilometres north of
Budapest
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. The E77 European main road drives by the village. Hont lies north of
Börzsöny
Börzsöny (; sk, Novohradské hory, New City Mountains) is a mountain range in Northern Hungary. Its tallest peak is the Csóványos with .
It is the westernmost member of the North Hungarian Mountains, which belongs to the Inner Western Car ...
mountains in
Ipeľ
The Ipeľ ( Slovak; ) or Ipoly ( Hungarian) (German: ''Eipel'', archaic Slovak: ''Jupoľ'', Latin: ''Bolia'') is a long river in Slovakia and Hungary, a tributary of the Danube River. Its source is in central Slovakia in the Slovak Ore Mountai ...
(Hungarian Ipoly) valley.
History
The settlement was founded by
Hunt and Poznan on turn of 10th and 11th centuries. They were
German
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* Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language
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knight
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s and brothers according to Simonis de Keza, who was a
Hungarian historian in the 13th century. Hunt built an earth fort onto peninsula of
Ipeľ
The Ipeľ ( Slovak; ) or Ipoly ( Hungarian) (German: ''Eipel'', archaic Slovak: ''Jupoľ'', Latin: ''Bolia'') is a long river in Slovakia and Hungary, a tributary of the Danube River. Its source is in central Slovakia in the Slovak Ore Mountai ...
. This earth fort became centre of medieval
Hont County
Hont County was an administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. Most of its territory is now part of Slovakia, while a smaller southern portion is part of Hungary.
Today, in Slovakia Hont is the informal designation of the corres ...
. The name of the county and the settlement derived from Hunt's name, what means captain in old
German language
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. There was probably built another fort near to Hunt's castle onto a hill by Poznan.
The peninsula castle was the administrative centre of
Hont County
Hont County was an administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. Most of its territory is now part of Slovakia, while a smaller southern portion is part of Hungary.
Today, in Slovakia Hont is the informal designation of the corres ...
until the middle of the 13th century, when it lost its importance and was set on fire by either its proprietors or Tartars. The castle area was occupied by the settlement, so it is covered with houses now.
The village became property of
Archbishopric of Esztergom
In church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop.
History
In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided provinces were administratively associat ...
in 1436. The archbishopric remained owner until 1945.
The
Roman Catholic
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church was built in
Baroque style in 1776. After
World War II
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Hont was annexed to
Nógrád County
Nógrád ( hu, Nógrád megye, ; sk, Novohradská župa) is a county ( hu, megye) of Hungary. It sits on the northern edge of Hungary and borders Slovakia.
Description
Nógrád county lies in northern Hungary. It shares borders with Slovakia an ...
.
Hungary–Slovakia border crossings
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