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Veľký Meder - Wikipedia

Coordinates: 47°51′23″N 17°46′14″E / 47.85639°N 17.77056°E

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Veľký Meder Nagymegyer
Town
Townhall
Coat of arms
Etymology: Great Megyer deriving from the name of the ancient Hungarian Megyer tribe
Veľký Meder Location of Veľký Meder in Trnava Region Show map of Trnava Region Veľký Meder Location of Veľký Meder within Slovakia Show map of Slovakia
Coordinates: 47°51′23″N 17°46′14″E / 47.85639°N 17.77056°E / 47.85639; 17.77056
Country	Slovakia
Region	Trnava
District	Dunajská Streda
First mentioned	1268
Area ^[1]
• Total	55.55 km² (21.45 sq mi)
Elevation	112^[2] m (367^[2] ft)
Population (2022-12-31)^[3]
• Total	8,301
• Density	150/km² (390/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	932 01^[2]
Area code	+421 31^[2]
Car plate	DS
Website	http://www.velkymeder.sk/
Source:^[4]

Veľký Meder (1948–1990 Čalovo, Hungarian: Nagymegyer, Yiddish: Magendorf) is a town in the Dunajská Streda District, Trnava Region in southwestern Slovakia.

Etymology

The name is derived from the name of the ancient Hungarian Megyer tribe.^[5]

Geography

Veľký Meder lies in the eastern part of Great Rye Island, on the western border of historical Komárom County, around 20 km southeast of Dunajská Streda and 35 km northwest of Komárno. Administratively, the town belongs to the Trnava Region, Dunajská Streda District. The town is renowned for its thermal spring.

History

In the 9th century, the territory of Veľký Meder became part of the Kingdom of Hungary. The first written record about Veľký Meder was in 1248 under name Villa Meger. The population of the town has been predominantly Hungarian at least since the Middle Ages. In the Middle and Modern Ages, the settlement was a little market town in the western part of Komárom county. In 1466, Hungarian king Matthias Corvinus gave the town privileges. During the period of 1914-18 (World war I), near the town's railway station, was the location of the Austro-Hungarian death camp Kriegsgefangenenlager Nagymegyer. The Serbian cemetery in Veľký Meder has mass graves and monument to 5,153 Serb and Montenegrin war prisoners who died in the Kriegsgefangenenlager Nagymegyer, Austro-Hungarian POW camp. 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 Veľký Meder once more became part of Miklós Horthy's Hungary through the First Vienna Award. From 1945 until the Velvet Divorce, it was part of Czechoslovakia. Since then it has been part of Slovakia.

Demographics

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
1970	7,299	—
1980	8,063	+10.5%
1991	9,247	+14.7%
2001	9,113	−1.4%
2011	8,859	−2.8%
2021	8,446	−4.7%
Source: Censuses^[6]^[7]

According to the 2001 census, the most dominant group in the town are the Hungarians (84.6%), next are the Slovaks (13.5%), and there are small minorities of Czechs and Romani (both 0.7%).^[4]

Twin towns — sister cities

Veľký Meder is twinned with:^[8]

Čačak, Serbia
Dębica, Poland
Dobruška, Czech Republic
Bácsalmás, Hungary
Kapuvár, Hungary
Tápiógyörgye, Hungary

References

^ Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic (www.statistics.sk). "Hustota obyvateľstva - obce". www.statistics.sk. Retrieved 2024-02-08.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Základná charakteristika". www.statistics.sk (in Slovak). Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic. 2015-04-17. Retrieved 2022-03-31.
^ Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic (www.statistics.sk). "Počet obyvateľov podľa pohlavia - obce (ročne)". www.statistics.sk. Retrieved 2024-02-08.
^ ^a ^b "Archived copy". Archived from the original on May 13, 2007. Retrieved May 13, 2007.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) Municipal Statistics from the Statistical Office of the Slovak republic
^ Hladký, Juraj; Závodný, Andrej (2014). "Slovansko-slovenské kulturologické fenomény v starej slovenskej toponymii (na materiáli Žitného ostrova)" [The Slavic-Slovak Culturogical Phenomena in Older Slovak Toponyms]. Studia Slovakistica: Словацька філологія в Україні (PDF) (in Slovak). Uzhhorod: Видавництво О. Гаркуші.
^ "Statistical lexikon of municipalities 1970-2011" (PDF) (in Slovak).
^ "Census 2021 - Population - Basic results". Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic. 2021-01-01.
^ "Partnerské mestá". velkymeder.sk (in Slovak). Veľký Meder. Retrieved 2019-09-05.

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