Lajoskomárom () is a village in

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History

The village of Lajoskomárom was settled by the aristocratic

Batthyány family The House of Batthyány () is an ancient and distinguished Hungarian noble magnate family. The Head of the family bears the title Prince (Fürst) of Batthyány-Strattmann, while other members of this family bear the title Count/Countess ( Graf ...

in 1802. Its name is derived from the name of its founder Lajos Batthyány and from the neighbouring village of Mezőkomárom, to which the area of Lajoskomárom used to belong. The settlers were of three different ethnicities (

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and

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). The biggest group were the

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, most of whom were Lutherans with a Catholic minority. They didn't come directly from abroad, but rather from areas in modern-day Hungary already settled by ethnic Germans, most notably from

Pusztavám Pusztavám is a village in Fejér County, Hungary. Tucked against the south-western fringe of the Vértes Mountains, Pusztavám occupies of gently sloping loess plains and wooded limestone foothills, about north-west of Székesfehérvár. Cen ...

and

Tolna county Tolna (, ; ) is an administrative county (Comitatus (Kingdom of Hungary), comitatus or vármegye) in present-day Hungary as it was in the former Kingdom of Hungary. It lies in central Hungary, on the west bank of the river Danube. It shares borde ...

. The second ones in terms of population were the Hungarians, who belonged to three distinct denominations (

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) and who arrived from various areas of Western Hungary. The Slovaks were uniformly Lutheran and mostly originated from

Oroszlány Oroszlány () is a city in Hungary, Komárom-Esztergom county, Central Transdanubia region, located on the north-west flanks of the Vértes Mountains. The city has a population of 20.487. The main tourist attraction of the town is the 18th-century ...

. The three church towers in the crest of the village, symbolize the three denominations historically and currently present in the community.

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