Hurbanovo (until 1948 ''Stará Ďala'', hu, Ógyalla, german: Altdala) is a town and large
municipality
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The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...
in the
Komárno District
Komárno District ( sk, okres Komárno, hu, Komáromi járás) is a district in
the Nitra Region of western Slovakia.
Until 1918, the district was mostly part of the Komárom county within the Kingdom of Hungary.
The district has a populati ...
in the
Nitra Region
The Nitra Region ( sk, Nitriansky kraj, ; hu, Nyitrai kerület) is one of the administrative regions of Slovakia. It was first established in 1923 and from 1996 exists in its present borders. It consists of seven districts ( sk, okres) and 354 m ...
of south-west
Slovakia
Slovakia (; sk, Slovensko ), officially the Slovak Republic ( sk, Slovenská republika, links=no ), is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east, Hungary to the south, Austria to the s ...
. In 1948, its Slovak name was changed to Hurbanovo, named after Slovak writer
Jozef Miloslav Hurban
Jozef Miloslav Hurban ( hu, Hurbán József Miloszláv; pseudonyms ''Slavomil F. Kořennatý, Ľudovít Pavlovič, M. z Bohuslavíc, M. Selovský'', 19 March 1817 – 21 February 1888) was a leader of the Slovak National Council and the Slovak ...
The town lies at an elevation of 115 metres and covers an area of 59.943 km2.
Hurbanovo is situated on the climatically warmest location of the Podunajská nížina lowland, and it is located on the left bank of the Žitava river in the area with an altitude around 115 metres above the sea level.
Demographics
According to the 2021
census
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, the municipality had 7,467 inhabitants. 3,780 (or 50,62 %) of inhabitants were Slovaks, 3,038 (or 40,69 %)
Hungarians
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Czechs
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, 468 others and unspecified.
Government
The town has a birth registry, a
police force
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library
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, a
DVD
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rental store and a
cinema
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Film
* Cinematography, the art of motion-picture photography
* Film or movie, a series of still images that create the illusion of a moving image
** Film industry, the technological and commercial institutions of filmmaking
...
. It also has a
football pitch
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. The town has a commercial
bank
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Because ...
and
insurance company
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and number of general and food stores. It has a doctor's surgery and an outpatient facility for children and
adolescents
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and a gynaecologist.
A brewery, called Zlatý Bažant, also operates in the town.
Transport
The town has a
garage
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*Garage (residential), a building or part of a building for storing one or more vehicle ...
and
petrol station
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Gaso ...
and a
railway station
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.
Famous people
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Gabriela Dudeková Gabriela Dudeková (born 1968 in Hurbanovo) is a Slovak historian.
Biography
Dudeková lives and works in Bratislava, Nitra (Slovakia) and Houston, Texas, USA. She has a degree in history from the Comenius University in Bratislava (1991). She com ...
, historian
*
Árpád Feszty
Árpád Feszty (; 21 December 1856 – 1 June 1914) was a Hungarian people, Hungarian Painting, painter.
He was born in the town of Ógyalla (then Kingdom of Hungary (1526–1867), Hungary, now Hurbanovo, Slovakia). His ancestors were Ger ...
Climate in this area has mild differences between highs and lows, and there is adequate rainfall year-round. The
Köppen Climate Classification
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subtype for this climate is " Cfb". (Marine West Coast Climate). On 20 July 2007, Hurbanovo recorded a temperature of , which is the highest temperature to have ever been recorded in Slovakia.
Lovran
Lovran ( it, Laurana, german: Lauran) is a village and a municipality in Primorje-Gorski Kotar County, Croatia. It is situated in eastern Istria, on the western coast of the Kvarner Bay with a population of 4,101 in the municipality and 3,336 in th ...
, Croatia
*
Pápa
Pápa is a historical town in Veszprém county, Hungary, located close to the northern edge of the Bakony Hills, and noted for its baroque architecture. With its 32,473 inhabitants (2011), it is the cultural, economic and tourism centre of the re ...