Tekovské Lužany ( hu, Nagysalló) is a
village
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and
municipality
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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
Nitra Region
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of
Slovakia
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.
History
In
historical records the village was first mentioned in 1156. The settlement had Hungarian majority in the 17th century according to the Turkish tax census.
[Károly Kocsis, Eszter Kocsisné Hodosi, Ethnic Geography of the Hungarian Minorities in the Carpathian Basin, Simon Publications LLC, 1998, p. 4]
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Geography
The village
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lies at an altitude
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of 156 metres and covers an area
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of 43.936 km². It has a population
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of about 2940 people.
Ethnicity
The village is about 62% Slovak, 35% Magyar and 3% Gypsy
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.
Facilities
The village has a public library
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, cinema
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Film
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...
, football pitch
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.
External links
*http://www.statistics.sk/mosmis/eng/run.html
Villages and municipalities in Levice District
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