Nőtincs (, ), a pictorial locality looking back on a thousand-year old history, is in

Nógrád Nógrád (; ) is a village in Nógrád County, 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 ...

county A county () is a geographic region of a country used for administrative or other purposesL. Brookes (ed.) '' Chambers Dictionary''. Edinburgh: Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, 2005. in some nations. The term is derived from the Old French denoti ...

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. The village is located north of

Budapest Budapest is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns of Hungary, most populous city of Hungary. It is the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, tenth-largest city in the European Union by popul ...

near the

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, halfway between

Vác Vác (; ; ; ) is a thousand-year old city in Pest county in Hungary with approximately 35,000 inhabitants. The archaic spelling of the name is ''Vácz''. Location Vác is located north of Budapest on the eastern bank of the Danube river, below t ...

and

Balassagyarmat Balassagyarmat (Hungarian: ; formerly ''Balassa-Gyarmath''; ; or ) is a town in northern Hungary. It was the seat of the Nógrád County, Nógrád Comitatus (Kingdom of Hungary), comitatus. Balassagyarmat is the capital city of Palóc country as ...

. Nőtincs is located on the border of

Cserhát Cserhát () is a mountain range in Hungary, part of the North Hungarian Mountains, divided between Pest and Nógrád counties. Its highest point is the Karancs with an elevation of 729 metres above sea level. Cserhát stretches from Cserh ...

and

Börzsöny Börzsöny (; or ''Novohradské hory'', New City Mountains) is a mountain range in Northern Hungary. Its tallest peak is the Csóványos with . It is the westernmost member of the North Hungarian Mountains, which belongs to the Inner Weste ...

hills. Its location determines the function of the village.

Demographics

The village has 1,213 inhabitants in 466 housing units. Of its population, 96.3% are Hungarian; 0.6%

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; 0.4%

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; 0.4%

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as well as 3.6% without closer data.

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: 83.1%

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: 0.5%

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: 2.8% Lutheraner: 3.6% Other faiths: 0.4% Denomination lot: 3.1% No indication: 6.4%.

History

The village was first mentioned in 1317. Its name comes from ''nő'' (woman) and ''tincs'' (tuft). The village of 1,213 (2001) inhabitants is situated from

(the capital of Hungary), in the south-west of county Nógrád, at the foot of Naszály-hill and near Börzsöny-mountains, in the valley of Brooks Lókos and Hangya in a territory of 2,048 ha. It was first mentioned in records in 1317. Its Roman Catholic Church was built in 1415. The Gyurcsányi-Scitovszky mansion was built in 1809 in a 4 ha primeval park in the middle of the village. The statue of St. Florian on the facade of the old Catholic school was made around 1780.

Sights in neighbourhood

Bánk Bánk is a village and municipality in the comitat of Nógrád, 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 nor ...

: Lake (beach, fishing place, water-stage), every summer nationality festival #

Rétság Rétság is a small town in Nógrád (county), Nógrád county, in Hungary. Location Rétság is located north of the capital Budapest on the E77 European main road, halfway between Vác and Balassagyarmat. The town is located at the border of C ...

: St. Andrew Roman Catholic church, Kovács mansion # Diósjenő: Lake (fishing place), open-air bath # Felsőpetény: Church, Almássy-manson #

: Spectacular ruins of castle Nógrád, which was the centre of Nógrád county between 11th and 13th centuries and gave the name to the county

External links

* in Hungarian {{DEFAULTSORT:Noetincs Populated places in Nógrád County