Apc is a village in

Heves County Heves county (, ) lies in northern Hungary, between the right bank of the river Tisza and the Mátra and Bükk mountains. It shares borders with the Hungarian counties Pest (county), Pest, Nógrád (county), Nógrád, Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén and ...

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, beside the

Zagyva The Zagyva is a river in Hungary. This 179 km long river drains a basin of 5,677 km2. The source is near Salgótarján in Nógrád county. It flows through the towns of Bátonyterenye, Pásztó, Hatvan and Jászberény and flows into t ...

river, under the

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mountain ranges. As of the 2022 census, it had a population of 2452. The village is located 2.2 km from the (Nr. 81)

Hatvan–Fiľakovo railway Hatvan– Fiľakovo railway is a non-electrified railway connecting Hatvan, Hungary with Fiľakovo, Slovakia. Once a major connecting railway, the line currently sees only local Regionalbahn service and local goods traffic. It is double tracke ...

line, 3.5 km from the main road 21 and 15.7 km from the

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. The village has its own train station under the name ''Apc-Zagyvaszántó'' in the administrative area of the village, but it is closer to

Zagyvaszántó Zagyvaszántó is a village in Heves County, Hungary, on the Zagyva river. As of the 2022 census, it has a population of 1825 (see Demographics). The village located beside of the (Nr. 81) Hatvan–Fiľakovo railway line and the main road 21 and ...

History

During excavations, traces of a

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settlement and 7-8th century graves were found. The first written mention of the village are in the papal tithe list of 1332-37 in the form ''Opucz'' and it belongs to Gergely Opuz. In the 15th century, it was owned by the Szántai, Cserői and Radnóti families. The population engaged in farming and

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. ''Somlyó'' hill, rising above the village, got its name from the training of hunting falcons (''sólyom''). The population of the village fled raids by the

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, but in the 18th century it was already a

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and three national

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were held. The village was bought by Szent-Ivány Farkas in 1873, who built his castle here in 1876. He built an

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from the railway station to the

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. The brick factory opened in 1905. Between the two world wars, an

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was built. In 1944 the

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families were

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. 345 hectares of land were divided from noble estates after 1945. Three

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were founded in Apc after 1950, which merged in 1974.

Demographics

According the 2022 census, 89.9% of the population were of Hungarian ethnicity, 2.1% were

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and 10.0% did not wish to answer. The religious distribution was as follows: 35.8%

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, 2.9%

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, 12.6% non-denominational, and 44.6% did not wish to answer. 2425 people live in the village and 18 in the ''Gyár Street'', which is 1.6 km away from the village, beside the railway station. Another 12 people live on 2 farms. Population by years:

Politics

''Mayors since 1990'': * 1990–2010: Gábor Gémes (independent) * 2010–2014: Elemér József Bulcsú (

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) * 2014–: István Juhász (independent)

References

Populated places in Heves County {{Heves-geo-stub