Ács (german: Atsch) is a town in Komárom-Esztergom county, northern

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 ...

Geography

Ács is located in

Komárom District Komárom ( hu, Komáromi járás) is a district in north-western part of Komárom-Esztergom County. ''Komárom'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Central Transdanubia Statistical Region ...

on the eastern side of the

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near where the Concó River enters the

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. It is below the Bársonyosi Hills, at the point where the Székes joins the Concó, three kilometer south of the Danube and eight kilometers southwest of the city of

Komárno Komárno, ( hu, Komárom, german: Komorn, sr, Коморан, translit=Komoran), colloquially also called ''Révkomárom, Öregkomárom, Észak-Komárom'' in Hungarian; is a town in Slovakia at the confluence of the Danube and the Váh rivers. ...

History

Ács was a settlement in Roman times, in the province of Pannonia. There were two Roman castra, ''Ad Mures'' and ''Ad Statuas'', in the area. An early mention in the 13th century called the place ''Iwan de As''; and a document in 1346 called it ''Alchy''. In 1970 it was declared a large commune ('' Nagyközség''); and on 1 July 2007 it received town status. Ács légifotó

Twin towns – sister cities

Ács is twinned with: * Zlatná na Ostrove, Slovakia * Brăduț, Romania * Steinau, Germany

Notes and references

External links

* in Hungarian
Street map (Hungarian)

Aerial photographs of Ács
{{DEFAULTSORT:Acs Populated places in Komárom-Esztergom County