Pataš

Pataš Csilizpatas
—  village  —
The reformed church
Location of the village
Coordinates: 47°52′35″N 17°39′13″E / 47.87639°N 17.65361°E / 47.87639; 17.65361Coordinates: 47°52′35″N 17°39′13″E / 47.87639°N 17.65361°E / 47.87639; 17.65361
Country	Slovakia
Region	Trnava
District	Dunajská Streda
First written mention	1270
Government[1][2]
– Mayor	Lajos Kiss (Party of the Hungarian Coalition)
Area
– Total	9.384 km2 (3.6 sq mi)
Elevation	112 m (367 ft)
Population (2001)[3]
– Total	805
– Estimate (2008)	869
– Density	93/km2 (240.9/sq mi)
Etnicity[3]
– Hungarians	89,69%
– Slovakians	7,45 %
Time zone	EET (UTC+1)
– Summer (DST)	EEST (UTC+2)
Postal Code	930 08
Area code(s)	+421 31
Website	Official website (Hungarian)

Pataš (Hungarian: Csilizpatas, Hungarian pronunciation:[’tʃilizpɒtɒʃ]) is a village and municipality in the Dunajská Streda District in the Trnava Region of south-west Slovakia. The municipality also comprises Milinovice (Hungarian: Millenniumpuszta) and Pásztómajor settlements. Between 1948 and 1991, the Slovakian name of the village was Pastúchy.

The local agricultural co-operative survived the transition from communism to market-economy and is now one of the largest companies of the area.

History

View of the village

The village was first recorded in 1268. For three centuries, the village had been possession of the Dominican convent on the Margaret Island but Gabriel Bethlen prince of Transylvania confiscated it in 1621.

On its outer area, there used to two other villages as well, Für (Fyur) and Zelebeg, destroyed during the Ottoman–Hungarian Wars. Until the end of World War I, it was part of Hungary and fell within the Tószigetcsilizköz district of Győr County. After the Austro-Hungarian army disintegrated in November 1918, Czechoslovakian troops occupied the area. After the Treaty of Trianon of 1920, the village became officially part of Czechoslovakia. In 1923, as part of the Slovakization, 49 colonist families, mostly from Moravia, were settled into the village. In November 1938, the First Vienna Award granted the area to Hungary and it was held by Hungary until 1945. After Soviet occupation in 1945, Czechoslovakian administration returned and the village became officially part of Czechoslovakia in 1947.

Demography

In 1910, the village had 700, for the most part, Hungarian inhabitants.

At the 2001 Census the recorded population of the village was 805 while an end-2008 estimate by the Statistical Office had the villages's population as 869. As of 2001, 89,69 per cent of its population was Hungarian while 7,45 per cent was Slovakian.

As of 2001, 64,96% of the inhabitants professed Protestantism, while the adherents of Roman Catholicism numbered 25,45% of the total population.^[3]

References

1. ^ Local election results by the Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic, December 2006
2. ^ Local election 2010 results by the Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic
3. ^ ^{a b c} "Urban and Municipal Statistics MOŠ". http://app.statistics.sk/mosmis/eng/run.html. 

External links

The Csiliz Creek

• Local news in Új Szó newspaper (Hungarian)