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Csikvand (Gyor-Moson-Sopron, Hungary)

Csíkvánd község

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image by István Molnár, 1 December 2000



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Csíkvánd is a village in Győr-Moson-Sopron County in Hungary between the Town of Pápa (17 km north) and City of Győr (32 km south) in the Little Hungarian Plains. The settlement has got 611 inhabitants (1990 census), near all of Hungarians. Neighbouring settlements are: Mórichida, Malomsok and Gyarmat villages. The territory of the village is inhabited from the Stone Age, Roman ruins have been there. The first mention of the village is from 1270. More its settlers were serf. 1552-1593 and 1663-1685 under Turkish rule. In 1910 Gyarmat was a village in the Sokoróalja district of Győr County. Number of inhabitants in 1910: 980; 980 (100,0%) Hungarian by mother tongue, 703 (71,7%) Lutheran, 269 (27,4%) Roman Catholic, 6 (0,6%) Calvinist and 2 (0,2%) other by religion. 1920-1946 in Győr-Moson-Pozsony County, 1946-1949 in Győr-Moson County, 1950-1992 in Veszprém County and 1992-now in Győr-Moson-Sopron County. In the village you can see a Baroque Lutheran church (1820)
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István Molnár, 1 December 2000


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image by István Molnár, 1 December 2000