Ács () is a town in
Komárom-Esztergom county, northern
Hungary
Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning much 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 south, Croatia and ...
.
Geography
Ács is located in
Komárom District on the eastern side of the
Little Hungarian Plain
The Little Hungarian Plain or Little Alföld ( Hungarian: ''Kisalföld'' , Slovak: ''Malá dunajská kotlina'', German: ''Kleine Ungarische Tiefebene'') is a plain (tectonic basin) of approximately 8,000 km² in northwestern Hungary, sout ...
near where the
Concó River
Concó is a river in northern Hungary, a tributary of the Danube. It rises in Fejér County and enters the Danube in Komárom-Esztergom County near the city of Komárom.
Geography
The Concó rises on the northern slopes of the Bakony, Bakony ran ...
enters the
Danube
The Danube ( ; see also #Names and etymology, other names) is the List of rivers of Europe#Longest rivers, second-longest river in Europe, after the Volga in Russia. It flows through Central and Southeastern Europe, from the Black Forest sou ...
.
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 (, , ), colloquially also called ''Révkomárom'', ''Öregkomárom'', ''Észak-Komárom'' in Hungarian language, Hungarian, is a town in Slovakia at the confluence of the Danube and the Váh rivers. Historically it was formed by the "old ...
.
Name
The name literally means "carpenter". It refers to the carpenters who lived here in service to the king. The place name is attested as ''As'' in 1260 and 1270 and as ''Alch'' in 1297.
History
Ács was a settlement in Roman times, in the province of
Pannonia
Pannonia (, ) was a Roman province, province of the Roman Empire bounded on the north and east by the Danube, on the west by Noricum and upper Roman Italy, Italy, and on the southward by Dalmatia (Roman province), Dalmatia and upper Moesia. It ...
. There were two Roman
castra
''Castra'' () is a Latin language, Latin term used during the Roman Republic and Roman Empire for a military 'camp', and ''castrum'' () for a 'Fortification, fort'. Either could refer to a building or plot of land, used as a fortified milita ...
, ''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.
Twin towns – sister cities
Ács is
twinned with:
*
Zlatná na Ostrove
Zlatná na Ostrove (, ) is a village and municipality in the Komárno District in the Nitra Region of south-west Slovakia.
Geography
The village lies at an altitude of 120 metres and covers an area of 35.407 km².
It has a population of ab ...
, Slovakia
*
Brăduț
Brăduț (; ) is a commune in Covasna County, Transylvania, Romania composed of four villages: Brăduț, Doboșeni (''Székelyszáldobos''), Filia (''Erdőfüle''), and Tălișoara (''Olasztelek'').
Geography
The commune is situated in the nort ...
, Romania
*
Steinau, Germany
Notes and references
External links
* in Hungarian
Street map (Hungarian)Aerial photographs of Ács
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Populated places in Komárom-Esztergom County