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Country
  
Slovakia

District
  
Dunajská Streda

Time zone
  
EET (UTC+1)

Elevation
  
120 m

Population
  
1,824 (2001)

Region
  
Trnava

First written mention
  
1245

Postal Code
  
930 34

Area
  
23.2 km²

Local time
  
Monday 1:14 PM

Holice, Dunajská Streda District

Weather
  
12°C, Wind W at 13 km/h, 41% Humidity

Holice (Hungarian: Gelle, [ˈɡɛllɛ]) is a village and municipality in the Dunajská Streda District in the Trnava Region of south-west Slovakia.

Contents

Map of 930 34 Holice, Slovakia

Component villages

The municipality consists of 8 formerly independent villages.

Geography

The municipality lies at an altitude of 119 metres and covers an area of 23.209 km². It has a population of about 1,825 people.

History

In the 9th century, the territory of Holice became part of the Kingdom of Hungary. In historical records the village was first mentioned in 1245. After the Austro-Hungarian army disintegrated in November 1918, Czechoslovak troops occupied the area, later acknowledged internationally by the Treaty of Trianon. Between 1938 and 1945 Holice once more became part of Miklós Horthy's Hungary through the First Vienna Award. Village Holice was created in 1940 by joining the settlements Beketfa, Kostolná Gala, Stará Gala, and Póšfa. From 1945 until the Velvet Divorce, it was part of Czechoslovakia. Since then it has been part of Slovakia.

Demography

At the 2001 Census the recorded population of the village was 1,824 while an end-2008 estimate by the Statistical Office had the villages's population as 1,889. As of 2001, 96 per cent of its population was Hungarians, while 3,73 per cent Slovakian.

References

Holice, Dunajská Streda District Wikipedia


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