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by Istvan Molnar, 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)
Ratio of the flag: 2:3
Istvan Molnar, 1 December 2000
by Istvan Molnar, 1 December 2000
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