Veľké Kostoľany ( hu, Nagykosztolány) 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 to ...

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 ...

Piešťany District Piešťany District (''okres Piešťany'') is a Districts of Slovakia, district in the Trnava Region of western Slovakia, with the town of Piešťany being as its seat, cultural and economic center. Geography The district lies in the northern pa ...

in the

Trnava Region The Trnava Region ( sk, Trnavský kraj, ; hu, Nagyszombati kerület; german: Tyrnauer Landschaftsverband) is one of the eight Slovak administrative regions. It was established in 1996, before which date most of its districts were parts of Brati ...

of western

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 ...

History

In historical records the

was first mentioned in 1209.

Geography

The

lies at an

altitude Altitude or height (also sometimes known as depth) is a distance measurement, usually in the vertical or "up" direction, between a reference datum and a point or object. The exact definition and reference datum varies according to the context ...

of 167 metres and covers an

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of 24.386 km². It has a

population Population typically refers to the number of people in a single area, whether it be a city or town, region, country, continent, or the world. Governments typically quantify the size of the resident population within their jurisdiction using a ...

of about 2658 people.

Points of interest

Veľké Kostoľany transmitter The Velke Kostolany transmitter was the transmission facility of the Slovakian broadcasting company. It was situated north of Velke Kostolany. It was inaugurated in 1949 and was used for medium wave and short wave broadcasting. For medium wave b ...

References

External links

Official page
*https://web.archive.org/web/20070513023228/http://www.statistics.sk/mosmis/eng/run.html Villages and municipalities in Piešťany District {{Trnava-geo-stub