by István Molnár, 1 December 2000
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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)
Ratio of the flag: 2:3
István Molnár, 1 December 2000
by István Molnár, 1 December 2000