Paňa ( hu, Nemespann) is a

village A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred ...

and

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

in the

Nitra District Nitra District ( sk, okres Nitra) is a district in the Nitra Region of western Slovakia. It is the most populated of Slovakia's 79 districts. Before 1996 the present-day district belonged to the West-Slovak region (Západoslovenský kraj). It is na ...

in western central

Slovakia Slovakia (; sk, Slovensko ), officially the Slovak Republic ( sk, Slovenská republika, links=no ), is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east, Hungary to the south, Austria to the s ...

, 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 ...

History

In historical records the village was first mentioned in 1239 (in form Poonh). After the Mongolian invasion of Hungarian Kingdom in 1241 the next preserved written mention is from year 1285. From preserved written sources it's clear that the village was property of the

archdiocese 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 associate ...

. The village was one of the villages of Sedes de Verebel et Sancti Georgii, where lived church nobility serving the archbishop. The noblemen from the village also fought in the

Battle of Párkány The Battle of Párkány ( tr, Ciğerdelen Savaşı) was a battle fought between October 7–9, 1683 in the town of Párkány (today: Štúrovo), in the Ottoman Empire, and the area surrounding it as part of the Polish-Ottoman War and the Great ...

as part of Hungarian forces (in banderium of archbishop) against the Turkish forces.ŠA Ivanka pri Nitre, fond SAP, Residua Fragmenta)
2009 Családban marad I/1, 13
; Trubíni-Lieskovský 2019, 106 The list of fallen heroes from Paňa is maybe the first detailed list of fallen men from one place in history of Central Europe. The south part of village was known as Žigárd. The first preserved historical mention is older than of the village, it's from 1156 and 1232. In later period it was used as vineyard, but in 1970's it was destroyed. The Chapel of Saint Urban from 1862/1863 was also destroyed. The Church of All Saints was built in 1722. The tower is from 1847. The church was damaged by earthquake at Kúty in 1906. The new inner painting of the building is from 1932. The frescoes are work of Hungarian painter Edmund (Ödön) Massányi. The Rieger organ is from 1933. The side altars are maybe older than the church itself.

Geography

The

lies at an

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of 182 metres and covers an

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of . It has a

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of about 315 people.

Ethnicity

In 1919 Czechoslovak census from 730 people 486 Hungarian, 220 Slovak, 18 German lived in Paňa. The Jewish community in the village was never bigger than 25 people in the village until their deportation to concentration camps in the second world war. In the last census in 2011 there was from 347 people 315 Slovak, 15 Hungarian, 2 Czech, 2 Bulgarian, 1 Moravian and 12 with unknown ethnicity.

People

*Károly Kossovich lawyer and member of MTA, Tivadar Szentkereszty teacher and ethnographer, László Czobor vicecomes and representative and others had family relationship with the village. *István Zsittnyan Hungarian teacher, cultural organizator taught her. * Alajos Bogyó actor, opera singer and director was born here in 1834. * Gyula Agárdy piarist teacher, caricaturist was born here in 1895. *Jenő Csiffáry teacher and lifesaver was born here in 1895. *Sándor Csuthy mayor and lifesaver was born here in 1900. * Ľudovít Vaškovič Czechoslovak deputy minister of finance was born here in 1919. *László Varsányi teacher was born here in 1921.

Nature

File:Nemespann panni patak falu felett 2.JPG, The brook at its source File:Nemespann patak Zsigárdnál.JPG, The brook at Žigárd File:Nemespann Szent Orbán és kút.JPG, The Saint Urban chapel's ruin and a well File:Ciconia ciconia Pana nest 1 2012.JPG, Stork chicks

References

External links

*https://web.archive.org/web/20080111223415/http://www.statistics.sk/mosmis/eng/run.html {{DEFAULTSORT:Pana Villages and municipalities in Nitra District