Nitriansky Hrádok is a district of a town of

Šurany Šurany (until 1927, ''Veľké Šurany'') is a town and a railroad hub in the Nové Zámky District, Nitra Region, southern Slovakia. Alongside the main settlement, it has the boroughs of Kostolný Sek and Nitriansky Hrádok, both annexed 1976. ...

, Slovakia. This settlement was annexed to Šurany in 1976.Official website of Šurany
(Slovak, only History is in English as well)

Archaeological site

A significant quantity of archaeological material has been found at the tell of Zámeček (the name means "small castle", "

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"), settlement layers of which have been estimated to date from about 4,800 BC onwards. For this reason this place has become known as the "Slovakian

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". The oldest settlement was established by the

Lengyel culture __NOTOC__ The Lengyel culture is an archaeological culture of the European Neolithic, centered on the Middle Danube in Central Europe. It flourished from 5000 to 4000 BC, ending with phase IV, e.g., in Bohemia represented by the ' Jordanow/Jord ...

in the early 5th millennium BC. A settlement of the

Baden culture The Baden culture or Baden-Pécel culture is a Chalcolithic archaeological culture dating to 3520–2690 BC. It is found in Central and Southeast Europe, and is in particular known from Moravia (Czech Republic), Romania, Hungary, southern Pola ...

was later built in the same location, c. 3000 BC. The most significant period of occupation was during the

Bronze Age The Bronze Age () was a historical period characterised principally by the use of bronze tools and the development of complex urban societies, as well as the adoption of writing in some areas. The Bronze Age is the middle principal period of ...

, c. 1600 BC, when a large fortified settlement was built by the Mad'arovce culture. A famous find was a

Neolithic The Neolithic or New Stone Age (from Ancient Greek, Greek 'new' and 'stone') is an archaeological period, the final division of the Stone Age in Mesopotamia, Asia, Europe and Africa (c. 10,000 BCE to c. 2,000 BCE). It saw the Neolithic Revo ...

(Lengyel culture)

figurine A figurine (a diminutive form of the word ''figure'') or statuette is a small, three-dimensional sculpture that represents a human, deity or animal, or, in practice, a pair or small group of them. Figurines have been made in many media, with cla ...

of a sitting woman, which was dubbed ''Hrádocká Venuša'', or the Venus of Hradok. "Venus" is an umbrella term used in archaeology for objects of this type. The figurine was depicted on Slovakia's two- koruna coin. In 1997 a statue by Jaroslav Gubric was erected at Hradok, an enlarged copy of the figurine.A monument to Venus of Hradok
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Water

* Lake Mederčina * Gravel deposit Nitriansky Hrádok * river: Nitra and Malá Nitra (Stará Nitra)

Streets

* Dolná, Hlavná, Jabloňová, Na brehu, Na lúkach, Na pažiti, Nad hliníkom, Pod hájom, Pod lipami, Pri Čiernej vode, Pri Zámočku, Prídavky, Riečna, Rovná, Topoľová, Ulička, Za kostolom, Záhradná

Statue

* Statue of Magna Mater (Venus of Hradok) * Statue of St. Florian * Statue of St. Urban

Touristic attraction

* Lake Mederčina * Zámeček - Slovak Troy * Venus of Hradok * Church of St. Martina

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Nitriansky Hradok Archaeological sites in Slovakia Geography of Nitra Region