Hrochoť
Sign in to saveHrochoť () is a village and municipality of the Banská Bystrica District in the Banská Bystrica Region of Slovakia.
Key facts
- Slovak place.name
- Hrochoť
- Slovak place.other_name
- Horhát
- Slovak place.settlement_type
- Municipality
- Slovak place.image_skyline
- 601-47-0 9877 Hrochoť-kostol.jpg
- Slovak place.image_caption
- Lutheran church in Hrochoť
- Slovak place.image_flag
- Hrochot-banska bystrica-flag.svg
- Slovak place.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Slovak place.subdivision_type2
- District
- Slovak place.subdivision_name2
- Banská Bystrica District
- Slovak place.pushpin_map
- Slovakia Banská Bystrica Region#Slovakia
- Slovak place.pushpin_relief
- 1
- Slovak place.pushpin_map_caption
- Location of Hrochoť in the Banská Bystrica Region##Location of Hrochoť in Slovakia
- Slovak place.established_title
- First mentioned
- Slovak place.established_date
- 1424
- Slovak place.elevation_m
- 622
- Slovak place.postal_code_type
- Postal code
- Slovak place.postal_code
- 976 37
- Slovak place.area_code
- +421 48
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Slovakia
- Official name
- Hrochoť
- Country
- Slovakia
- Located in
- Banská Bystrica District
- Population
- 1425
- Area
- 34.742883
- Elevation
- 636
- Official website
- www.hrochot.sk
- Image
- 601-47-0 9877 Hrochoť-kostol.jpg
- Dialing code
- 048
- Licence plate code
- BB
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- Commons category
- Hrochoť
- postal code
- 976 37
- time of earliest written record
- 1296-00-00
- native label
- Hrochoť
- inception
- 1296-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Etymology
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Hrochoť () is a village and municipality of the Banská Bystrica District in the Banská Bystrica Region of Slovakia.
==Etymology== The etymology is not completely clear. Slovak (dialect) hrochotať - to make a noise, hrochoť - a sharp noise sound (i.e. compare with Russian грохотать). Rudolf Krajčovič associates the name with pastoralism and the sound of the whip. There are also other meanings of the word.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hrochoť” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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