Bátovce
Sign in to saveBátovce (, , ) is a village and municipality in the Levice District in the Nitra Region of Slovakia.
Key facts
- Slovak place.name
- Bátovce
- Slovak place.other_name
- Bát
- Slovak place.settlement_type
- Municipality
- Slovak place.image_skyline
- File:Bátovce, Evanjelický kostol, Slovensko.jpg
- Slovak place.image_caption
- Evangelical Church
- Slovak place.image_flag
- Batovce-levice-flag.svg
- Slovak place.image_shield
- Batovce Shield.png
- Slovak place.subdivision_type2
- Region
- Slovak place.subdivision_type3
- District
- Slovak place.subdivision_name3
- Levice District
- Slovak place.pushpin_map
- Slovakia Nitra Region#Slovakia
- Slovak place.pushpin_relief
- 1
- Slovak place.pushpin_map_caption
- Location of Bátovce in the Nitra Region##Location of Bátovce in Slovakia
- Slovak place.established_title
- First mentioned
- Slovak place.established_date
- 1320
- Slovak place.elevation_m
- 224
- Slovak place.postal_code_type
- Postal code
- Slovak place.postal_code
- 935 03
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Bátovce (, , ) is a village and municipality in the Levice District in the Nitra Region of Slovakia.
==History== In historical records the village was first mentioned in 1037 as "FORUM REGINE". The second time Batovce was mentioned as "MERKATUM REGINE". In 1327 Hungarian King Karoly named Batovce as The Royal City. In the medieval times it was known as "The city of Queens" and it was one of three free cities in the Hont and Tekov region. After World War II a village called Jalaksova was connected with Batovce. During the 1970s, the Lipovina Water Dam was built and nowadays it is one of the centers of tourism in Levice region.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bátovce” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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