Veľké Trakany

Veľké trakany (until 1948 Slovak "Velky Tarkan", Hungarian Nagytarkány ) is a municipality in the east of Slovakia with a population of 1,439 (December 31, 2019), which for Okres Trebišov of, a circle kraj Košický heard. It is part of the traditional Zemplín landscape .

geography

The municipality is located in the south-eastern corner of the eastern Slovakian lowlands in the Medzibodrožie (Hungarian Bodrogköz ) region, right on the Hungarian and not far from the Ukrainian border. The place lies on the bank of the old arm of the Stará Tisa of the Tisza and, together with the neighboring Malé Trakany, has the small Slovak part of the river. The center of the village is located at an altitude of 103 m nm and is three and a half kilometers from Čierna nad Tisou , 12 kilometers from Kráľovský Chlmec and 66 kilometers from Trebišov (all road distances).

Since 2013 the municipality has had a cross-border road connection to Zemplénagárd.

Neighboring municipalities are Čierna nad Tisou in the north, Malé Trakany in the northeast and east, Tiszabezdéd (H) in the southeast, Zemplénagárd (H) in the south, briefly Dámóc in the west and Biel in the northwest.

history

The current municipality was settled in the New Stone Age; archaeological finds of the East Slovak linear ceramics and the Piliny culture from the Bronze Age.

The place was first mentioned in writing in 1320 as Tharkan . In the 14th century, the originally united place was divided, as the name form Nog Tharkan (literally "Greater Tharkan") from 1340 shows. A market was documented in 1429, until the 19th century the village housed a salt office with a warehouse. In 1557 five porta are recorded in a tax register. Until 16./17. In the 19th century, the estate changed between several small aristocrats, in 1688 the estate came into the possession of the Senney family , which was replaced by the Majláths at the end of the 19th century . In 1828 there were 75 houses and 578 residents who lived on agriculture and livestock.

Until 1918/1919, the place in Semplin County belonged to the Kingdom of Hungary and then came to Czechoslovakia or now Slovakia. On the basis of the First Vienna Arbitration Award , he was in Hungary again from 1938 to 1944.

population

According to the 2011 census, Veľké Trakany had 1,425 inhabitants, including 1,115 Magyars, 238 Slovaks, eight Ukrainians, four Roma, three Russians, one German and two residents of other ethnic groups. 54 residents gave no information in this regard. 944 residents supported the Roman Catholic Church, 216 residents the Reformed Church, 130 residents the Greek Catholic Church, 21 residents the Jehovah's Witnesses, ten residents the Evangelical Church AB, seven residents the Evangelical Methodist Church and five residents the Orthodox Church; three residents professed a different denomination. 23 residents had no denomination and the denomination of 66 residents was not determined.

Buildings and monuments

Roman Catholic Church of the Birth of Mary from 1894
Protestant church from the first half of the 20th century
Greek Catholic Church
Building of the former salt office in late baroque style, today it houses a regional museum
Trianon monument created in 2005
Statue of Bálint Balassa

Individual evidence

↑ Results of the 2011 census (Slovak)

Web links

Entry on e-obce.sk (Slovak)

[1] Results of the 2011 census (Slovak)