Levice, the Glossary
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89 relations: Adventism, Art Nouveau, Attempted assassination of Robert Fico, Austria-Hungary, Érd, Čajkov, Štiavnica Mountains, Želiezovce, Banská Štiavnica, Blaufränkisch, Boskovice, Bratislava, Brhlovce, Celts, Central European Summer Time, Central European Time, Charismatic movement, Counties of Hungary (1000–1920), Czechoslovakia, Czechs, Danubian Lowland, Districts of Slovakia, Eclecticism, Eger, Endemism, Esterházy, Eugene Fodor (writer), Fodor's, Folk costume, Franz Schubert, Géza Steinhardt, Gymnazium Andreja Vrabla, Heraldry, House of Habsburg, Hron, Hronský Beňadik, Hungarians, Hungary, Imperial Army (Holy Roman Empire), István Dobó, Jean-Louis Raduit de Souches, Jehovah's Witnesses, Jews, Kalinčiakovo, Kálmán Kittenberger, Kuruc, Levice District, Lyceum, Martin of Tours, Mineral water, ... Expand index (39 more) »
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Adventism
Adventism is a branch of Protestant Christianity that believes in the imminent Second Coming (or the "Second Advent") of Jesus Christ.
Art Nouveau
Art Nouveau is an international style of art, architecture, and applied art, especially the decorative arts.
Attempted assassination of Robert Fico
On 15 May 2024, Prime Minister of Slovakia Robert Fico was shot and critically injured in the central Slovak town of Handlová, in front of its House of Culture after a government meeting.
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Austria-Hungary
Austria-Hungary, often referred to as the Austro-Hungarian Empire or the Dual Monarchy, was a multi-national constitutional monarchy in Central Europe between 1867 and 1918.
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Érd
Érd (Hanselbeck, Andzabeg) is a town in Pest County, Budapest metropolitan area, Hungary.
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Čajkov
Čajkov (Csejkő) is a village and municipality in the Levice District in the Nitra Region of south-west Slovakia.
Štiavnica Mountains
The Štiavnica Mountains (also Štiavnické Mountains; Štiavnické vrchy) are a volcanic mountain range southern central Slovakia.
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Želiezovce
Želiezovce (Zselíz, until 1895: Zseliz; Zelis) is a town in Slovakia in the Nitra Region in the Levice District, near the Hron river. Levice and Želiezovce are cities and towns in Slovakia.
Banská Štiavnica
Banská Štiavnica (Schemnitz; Selmecbánya (Selmec)) is a town in central Slovakia, in the middle of an immense caldera created by the collapse of an ancient volcano. Levice and Banská Štiavnica are cities and towns in Slovakia.
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Blaufränkisch
Blaufränkisch (German for blue Frankish) is a dark-skinned variety of grape used for red wine.
Boskovice
Boskovice (Boskowitz) is a town in Blansko District in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic.
Bratislava
Bratislava (German: Pressburg or Preßburg,; Hungarian: Pozsony; Slovak: Prešporok), is the capital and largest city of Slovakia and the fourth largest of all cities on Danube river. Levice and Bratislava are cities and towns in Slovakia.
Brhlovce
Brhlovce (Borfő) is a municipality and village in the Levice District in the south-west of Slovakia, in the Nitra Region.
Celts
The Celts (see pronunciation for different usages) or Celtic peoples were a collection of Indo-European peoples.
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Central European Summer Time
Central European Summer Time (CEST, UTC+02:00), sometimes referred to as Central European Daylight Time (CEDT), is the standard clock time observed during the period of summer daylight-saving in those European countries which observe Central European Time (CET; UTC+01:00) during the other part of the year.
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Central European Time
Central European Time (CET) is a standard time of Central, and parts of Western Europe, which is one hour ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
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Charismatic movement
The charismatic movement in Christianity is a movement within established or mainstream Christian denominations to adopt beliefs and practices of Charismatic Christianity, with an emphasis on baptism with the Holy Spirit, and the use of spiritual gifts (charismata).
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Counties of Hungary (1000–1920)
A county (vármegye or megye; the earlier refers to the counties of the Kingdom of Hungary) is the name of a type of administrative unit in Hungary.
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Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia (Czech and Československo, Česko-Slovensko) was a landlocked state in Central Europe, created in 1918, when it declared its independence from Austria-Hungary.
Czechs
The Czechs (Češi,; singular Czech, masculine: Čech, singular feminine: Češka), or the Czech people (Český lid), are a West Slavic ethnic group and a nation native to the Czech Republic in Central Europe, who share a common ancestry, culture, history, and the Czech language.
Danubian Lowland
The Danubian Lowland or Danube Lowland is the name of the part of Little Alföld (Slovak: Malá dunajská kotlina) situated in Slovakia, located between the Danube, the Little Carpathians and all other parts of the Western Carpathians.
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Districts of Slovakia
The districts of Slovakia are administrative units known as okres in the Slovak language.
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Eclecticism
Eclecticism is a conceptual approach that does not hold rigidly to a single paradigm or set of assumptions, but instead draws upon multiple theories, styles, or ideas to gain complementary insights into a subject, or applies different theories in particular cases.
Eger
Eger (also known by other alternative names) is the county seat of Heves County, and the second largest city in Northern Hungary (after Miskolc).
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Endemism
Endemism is the state of a species only being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere.
Esterházy
The House of Esterházy, also spelled Eszterházy, is a Hungarian noble family with origins in the Middle Ages.
Eugene Fodor (writer)
Eugene Fodor (October 14, 1905 – February 18, 1991) was a Hungarian-American writer of travel literature.
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Fodor's
Fodor's is a producer of English-language travel guides and online tourism information.
Folk costume
A folk costume (also regional costume, national costume, traditional clothing, traditional garment or traditional regalia) expresses a national identity through clothing or costume, which is associated with a specific region and period of time in history.
Franz Schubert
Franz Peter Schubert (31 January 179719 November 1828) was an Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras.
Géza Steinhardt
Géza Steinhardt (né Géza Szekeres; 1873–1944), was a Hungarian stage and film actor, theater director, film producer, screenplay writer, and author.
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Gymnazium Andreja Vrabla
Gymnazium Andreja Vrabla is a gymnasium located in Levice, Slovakia.
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Heraldry
Heraldry is a discipline relating to the design, display and study of armorial bearings (known as armory), as well as related disciplines, such as vexillology, together with the study of ceremony, rank and pedigree.
House of Habsburg
The House of Habsburg (Haus Habsburg), also known as the House of Austria, was one of the most prominent and important dynasties in European history.
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Hron
The Hron (Hron; Gran; Garam; Granus) is a long left tributary of the Danube, p. 38 and the second-longest river in Slovakia.
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Hronský Beňadik
Hronský Beňadik (1920–1948: Svätý Benedik, 1948–1960: Svätý Beňadik; Sankt Benedikt; Garamszentbenedek, until 1888: Szentbenedek; Sanctus Benedictus) is a village in central Slovakia.
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Hungarians
Hungarians, also known as Magyars (magyarok), are a Central European nation and an ethnic group native to Hungary and historical Hungarian lands (i.e. belonging to the former Kingdom of Hungary) who share a common culture, history, ancestry, and language.
Hungary
Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe.
Imperial Army (Holy Roman Empire)
Imperial Army (Latin: Exercitus Imperatoris, Kaiserliche Armee) or Imperial Troops (Kaiserliche Truppen or Kaiserliche) was a name used for several centuries, especially to describe soldiers recruited for the Holy Roman Emperor during the early modern period.
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István Dobó
Baron István Dobó de Ruszka (c. 1502 - Szerednye (today, Середнє (Szerednye / Serednie, Ukraine), mid-June 1572) was a Hungarian soldier, best known as the successful defender of Eger against the Ottomans in 1552. Dobó was a member of the Hungarian land-owning nobility, with holdings in northern Hungary.
Jean-Louis Raduit de Souches
Jean-Louis Raduit de Souches (16 August 1608 to 12 August 1682), was a French-born professional soldier, who served in the Swedish and Imperial armies.
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Jehovah's Witnesses
Jehovah's Witnesses is a nontrinitarian, millenarian, restorationist Christian denomination.
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Jews
The Jews (יְהוּדִים) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites of the ancient Near East, and whose traditional religion is Judaism.
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Kalinčiakovo
Kalinčiakovo (Hontvarsány) is a village in the Levice District of western Slovakia, now administratively a part of the town of Levice.
Kálmán Kittenberger
Kálmán Kittenberger (Léva, 10 October 1881 - Nagymaros, 4 January 1958) was an Austro-Hungarian traveller, natural historian, biologist and collector.
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Kuruc
Kuruc (plural kurucok), also spelled kurutz, refers to a group of armed anti-Habsburg insurgents in the Kingdom of Hungary between 1671 and 1711.
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Levice District
Levice District (okres Levice; Lévai járás) is a district in the Nitra Region of western Slovakia.
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Lyceum
The lyceum is a category of educational institution defined within the education system of many countries, mainly in Europe.
Martin of Tours
Martin of Tours (Martinus Turonensis; 316/3368 November 397), also known as Martin the Merciful, was the third bishop of Tours.
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Mineral water
Mineral water is water from a mineral spring that contains various minerals, such as salts and sulfur compounds.
Mochovce
Mochovce (Mohi) is a former village in western Slovakia, best known for its nuclear power plant.
Mochovce Nuclear Power Plant
The Mochovce Nuclear Power Plant (Atómové elektrárne Mochovce, abbr. EMO) is a nuclear power plant located between the towns of Nitra and Levice, on the site of the former village of Mochovce, Slovakia.
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Modrý kríž
Modrý kríž (Slovak for Blue Cross) was a "teetotalers' society" originating in Stará Turá, Slovakia at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th.
Moravian Church
The Moravian Church, or the Moravian Brethren (Moravská církev or Moravští bratři), formally the Unitas Fratrum (Latin: "Unity of the Brethren"), is one of the oldest Protestant denominations in Christianity, dating back to the Bohemian Reformation of the 15th century and the Unity of the Brethren (Jednota bratrská) founded in the Kingdom of Bohemia, sixty years before Martin Luther's Reformation.
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Munich Agreement
The Munich Agreement was an agreement reached in Munich on 30 September 1938, by Nazi Germany, the United Kingdom, the French Republic, and Fascist Italy.
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Muslims
Muslims (God) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition.
Nature reserve
A nature reserve (also known as a wildlife refuge, wildlife sanctuary, biosphere reserve or bioreserve, natural or nature preserve, or nature conservation area) is a protected area of importance for flora, fauna, funga, or features of geological or other special interest, which is reserved and managed for purposes of conservation and to provide special opportunities for study or research.
Náměšť na Hané
Náměšť na Hané is a market town in Olomouc District in the Olomouc Region of the Czech Republic.
Nitra
Nitra (also known by other alternative names) is a city in western Slovakia, situated at the foot of Zobor Mountain in the valley of the river Nitra. Levice and Nitra are cities and towns in Slovakia.
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Nitra Region
The Nitra Region (Nitriansky kraj,; Nyitrai kerület) is one of the administrative regions of Slovakia.
Old Catholic Church
The terms Old Catholic Church, Old Catholics, Old-Catholic churches, or Old Catholic movement, designate "any of the groups of Western Christians who believe themselves to maintain in complete loyalty the doctrine and traditions of the undivided church but who separated from the see of Rome after the First Vatican council of 1869–70".
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Old Church Slavonic
Old Church Slavonic or Old Slavonic is the first Slavic literary language.
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Onyx
Onyx is the parallel-banded variety of chalcedony, a silicate mineral.
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Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire, historically and colloquially known as the Turkish Empire, was an imperial realm centered in Anatolia that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Central Europe, between the early 16th and early 18th centuries.
Pál Kadosa
Pál Kadosa (6 September 1903, Léva, Austria-Hungary (now Levice, Slovakia) – 30 March 1983, Budapest) was a pianist and Hungarian composer of the post-Bartók generation.
Pentecostalism
Pentecostalism or classical Pentecostalism is a Protestant Charismatic Christian movement that emphasizes direct personal experience of God through baptism with the Holy Spirit.
Pukanec
Pukanec (Bugganz / Puk(k)an(t)z, Bakabánya; Bukabak) is a village and municipality (historical town) in the Levice District in the Nitra Region of southern Slovakia.
Reformed Christianity
Reformed Christianity, also called Calvinism, is a major branch of Protestantism that began during the sixteenth-century Protestant Reformation, a schism in the Western Church.
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Regions of Slovakia
Since 1949 (except 1990–1996), Slovakia has been divided into a number of kraje (singular kraj; usually translated as "Regions" with capital R).
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Robert Fico
Robert Fico (born 15 September 1964) is a Slovak politician who is currently serving as the prime minister of Slovakia since 2023.
Romanesque architecture
Romanesque architecture is an architectural style of medieval Europe that was predominant in the 11th and 12th centuries.
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Romanesque church in Kalinčiakovo
The Romanesque church in Kalinčiakovo is a Reformed chapel in the village of Kalinčiakovo (Levice district, Slovakia).
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Romani people
The Romani, also spelled Romany or Rromani and colloquially known as the Roma (Rom), are an ethnic group of Indo-Aryan origin who traditionally lived a nomadic, itinerant lifestyle.
Rose
A rose is either a woody perennial flowering plant of the genus Rosa, in the family Rosaceae, or the flower it bears.
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Royal free city
Royal free city or free royal city (Latin: libera regia civitas) was the official term for the most important cities in the Kingdom of Hungary from the late 12th century until the Hungarian Revolution of 1848.
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Ruda Śląska
Ruda Śląska (Ruda O.S.) is a city in Silesia in southern Poland, near Katowice.
Santovka
Santovka (Szántó) is a village and municipality in the Levice District in the Nitra Region of Slovakia.
Siege of Léva
This page is partially a translation of the French version The siege of Léva was fought on 19 July 1664 as part of the Austro-Turkish War (1663–1664), between a Habsburg army led by Jean-Louis Raduit de Souches and an Ottoman army under the command of Ali Pasha.
Sister city
A sister city or a twin town relationship is a form of legal or social agreement between two geographically and politically distinct localities for the purpose of promoting cultural and commercial ties.
Skierniewice
Skierniewice is a city in central Poland with 47,031 inhabitants (2021), situated in the Łódź Voivodeship.
Slovakia
Slovakia (Slovensko), officially the Slovak Republic (Slovenská republika), is a landlocked country in Central Europe.
Slovaks
The Slovaks (Slováci, singular: Slovák, feminine: Slovenka, plural: Slovenky) are a West Slavic ethnic group and nation native to Slovakia who share a common ancestry, culture, history and speak the Slovak language.
Tekov
Tekov is the traditional name of a region situated in southern and central Slovakia.
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Treaty of Trianon
The Treaty of Trianon (Traité de Trianon; Trianoni békeszerződés; Trattato del Trianon; Tratatul de la Trianon) often referred to as the Peace Dictate of Trianon or Dictate of Trianon in Hungary, was prepared at the Paris Peace Conference and was signed on the one side by Hungary and, on the other, by the Entente and Associated Powers in the Grand Trianon château in Versailles on 4 June 1920.
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Trecento
The Trecento (also,; short for milletrecento, "1300") refers to the 14th century in Italian cultural history.
Vehicle registration plates of Slovakia
Vehicles registered in Slovakia were generally assigned to one of the districts (okres) and from 1997 until 2022, the license plate coding (EČV, evidenčné číslo vozidla) generally consisted of seven characters and takes the form XX-NNNLL, where XX was a two letter code corresponding to the district, NNN was a three digit number and LL were two additional letters (assigned alphabetically).
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World Heritage Site
World Heritage Sites are landmarks and areas with legal protection by an international convention administered by UNESCO for having cultural, historical, or scientific significance.
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World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
Zvolen
Zvolen (Zólyom; Altsohl) is a city in central Slovakia, situated on the confluence of Hron and Slatina rivers. Levice and Zvolen are cities and towns in Slovakia.
See also
Tekov
- Beladice
- Levice
- Tekov
- Topoľčianky
- Vráble
- Zlaté Moravce
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levice
Also known as Lewenz, Léva.
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