Ahy
| Ahy | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| State : | Slovakia | ||
| Kraj : | Nitriansky kraj | ||
| Okres : | Levice | ||
| Region : | Pohrony | ||
| Area : | 42.727 km² | ||
| Residents : | 7,219 (Dec 31, 2019) | ||
| Population density : | 169 inhabitants per km² | ||
| Height : | 136 m nm | ||
| Postal code : | 936 01 | ||
| Telephone code : | 0 36 | ||
| Geographic location : | 48 ° 4 ' N , 18 ° 57' E | ||
| License plate : | LV | ||
| Kód obce : | 502782 | ||
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| Community type : | city | ||
| Urban area structure: | 3 districts | ||
| Administration (as of November 2018) | |||
| Mayor : | Štefan Gregor | ||
| Address: | Mestský úrad Šahy Hlavné námestie 1 93601 Šahy |
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| Website: | www.sahy.sk | ||
| Statistics information on statistics.sk | |||
Šahy (until 1927 in Slovak "Ipolské Šiahy" or "Ipeľské Šahy"; German Eipelschlag or Saag , Hungarian Ipolyság - also Ság ) is a city in southern Slovakia .
history
Šahy was first mentioned as Saag in 1237 in a document from King Béla IV of Hungary. The purpose of the notarization was the foundation of a Premonstratensian monastery by Martin von Hont-Pázmány. In the 14th century, Šahy developed into a small town in Hont County of the Kingdom of Hungary .
As a result of the Hungarian Civil War , Šahy fell to the Ottoman Empire , to which the city, then called Şefradi , belonged from 1541 to 1595 and from 1605 to 1685. From 1663 to 1685, Šahy was the administrative seat of a sanjak in Eyâlet Uyvar .
During the Great Turkish War , the Austrians conquered the city in 1685. From then on, until 1918, Šahy belonged to the Habsburg Monarchy (from 1804: Austrian Empire , from 1867: Austria-Hungary ). Since 1806, Šahy was the capital of Hont County in the Kingdom of Hungary of the Kuk monarchy .
When the dual monarchy collapsed in 1918, Šahy fell to the newly formed Czechoslovakia under the Treaty of Trianon of June 4, 1920 . In the First Vienna Award of November 2, 1938, Šahy was awarded to Hungary and the capital of the Ipolyság district (Hungarian: Ipolysági járás ). 855 of the 4,710 inhabitants in 1938 were - mostly Hungarian-speaking - Jews. Almost all of them were murdered in the 1944 Holocaust .
After the Second World War, Sahy came back to Czechoslovakia in 1945. In the 1980s, Šahy grew through the incorporation of two neighboring towns, which became districts:
- Preseľany nad Ipľom (incorporated in 1980)
- Tešmák (incorporated in 1986)
As a result of the dissolution of Czechoslovakia on January 1, 1993, Šahy has belonged to Slovakia since then.
Personalities
- Ferdinand Daučík (1910–1986), football player and coach, born in Ipolské Šiahy
- Helga Countess Haller von Hallerstein (1927–2017), German politician (CDU) and member of the European Parliament
Culture
Status quo ante synagogue (Šahy)
Footnotes
- ↑ György Fejér, Maurus Czinár (Mór Czinár): Index alphabeticus codicis diplomatici Hungariae . Published on behalf of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences . Verlag von Gustav Emich, Pest 1866 p. 385f.
- ↑ S. Ascher, György Gartenzaum: Örökmécses: Šahy - Ipoolyság és Környéke . Nahariya 1994. pp. 127–150 (Memorial book of the community of Ipolyság, Hebrew and Hungarian; translation of the Hungarian title: Eternal Light: Šahy - Ipolyság and surroundings , translation of the Hebrew title: Eternal light in memory of the Jews of Ipolyság and surroundings ) .
