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Léva
Levice
Léva
Hungarian:
Léva
Slovak:
Levice
German:
Lewenz
Historical Hungarian county:
Bars
Country:
Slovakia
District:
Nitriansky kraj
River:
Garam
Altitude:
163 m
GPS coordinates:
48.219098, 18.604764
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Population
Population:
33k
Hungarian:
9.18%
Population in 1910
| Total | 9675 |
|---|---|
| Hungarian | 90.46% |
| German | 2.06% |
| Slovak | 7.11% |
The little town is situated in the valley of the Garam River near the Selmec Mountains. It was the seat of Bars County for some time, later its castle played an important role in the defense of Hungary against the Turks. Dobó István, the victorious captain of Eger Castle, was the captain of Léva Castle for a while. He reinforced its defenses and built a palace inside it, which now hosts the exhibitions of the Museum of Bars. The Turks besieged the castle a couple of times and they occupied it once, but they could not hold it even for a year. Its famous Piarist grammar school met its fate in 1920 when the nearly entirely Hungarian town was attached from Hungary to the newly created Czechoslovakia. After the Second World War the Czechoslovak rulers deported most of the Hungarian population and moved in Slovaks.
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895
Arrival of the Hungarians
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895
The alliance of the seven Hungarian tribes took possession of the then largely uninhabited Carpathian Basin. Until then, the sparse Slavic population of the north-western Carpathians had lived under Moravian rule for a few decades after the collapse of the Avar Khaganate in the early 9th century.
1000
Foundation of the Hungarian Kingdom
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1000
The Kingdom of Hungary was established with the coronation of King Stephen I. He converted the Hungarians to Christianity and created two archdioceses (Esztergom and Kalocsa) and ten dioceses. He divided Hungary into counties led by ispáns, who were appointed by the king.
11th century
The village belonged to the castle of Bars County. The castle of Bars was a motte-and-bailey castle and was destroyed during the Mongol invasion in 1241-42.
after 1242
After the Mongol invasion a royal castle and a church was erected on the Baratka hill, and it became the center of Bars County.
1156
The settlement was mentioned for the first time as "villa Leua".
1241-1242
Mongol Invasion
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1241-1242
The hordes of the Mongol Empire invaded Hungary and almost completely destroyed it. One third to one half of the population was destroyed. The Mongols also suffered heavy losses in the battle of Muhi and they could not hunt down the king. After their withdrawal, King Béla IV reorganized Hungary. He allowed the feudal lords to build stone castles because they were able to successfully resist the nomadic Mongols. The vast majority of stone castles were built after this. The king called in German, Vlach (Romanian) and Slavic settlers to replace the destroyed population.
1271
Ottokar II of Bohemia besieged it but could not occupy it.
1301
The extinction of the House of Árpád
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1301
The House of Árpád, the first Hungarian royal dynasty, died out with the death of King Andrew III. Hungary was ruled by oligarchs, the most powerful of whom was Csák Máté, whose main ally was the Aba family. King Charles I (1308-1342), supported by the Pope, eventually emerged as the most prominent of the contenders for the Hungarian throne. But it took decades to break the power of the oligarchs.
1312
The Hungarian oligarch Csák Máté occupied Léva.
1321
Csák Máté died. After the fall of Trecsén, the seat of Csák Máté, the castellan of Léva, Kistapolcsányi Gyula surrendered to King Charles I of Hungary. The king appointed Becsei Imre as the royal ispán of Bars.
1330
Sebe, the daughter of Zách Felicián was beheaded in the castle. Zách Felicián, an ex-follower of the oligarch Csák Máté, tried to kill the king (Charles I) after one of his daughter, Klára, was raped by the brother of Queen Elisabeth. He injured the king's arm and cut off four of the queen's fingers. He was killed on the spot and his family was exterminated.
after 1387
King Sigismund gave the town to the baron László son of Sárói Péter for his support. His son adopted the noble surname "Lévai Cseh".
1440
After the death of King Albert of the House of Habsburg, the Estates of Hungary elected the Polish Ulászló to the throne. Elisabeth, the widow queen, in order to secure the throne for László, her baby boy, called in the Czech Hussite mercenary leader Jan Jiskra. She gave him the title "Captain of the Mining Towns and Kassa", and gave him the castle of Zólyom.
1440-1441
The Czech Hussites soon occupied much of northern Hungary. They reinforced the castles and turned them into bandit lairs. They were pillaging everywhere and large areas became uninhabited. They wiped out the local German and Hungarian population, who were replaced by Czech and other Slavic settlers. The Czech Hussite devastation largely contributed to the Slavicisation of northern Hungary (now Slovakia).
1440s
The Hussites burned the town, but the defenders of the castle repelled the attack.
1462
At the end of the war that King Matthias of Hungary had waged against the Hussites since 1458, Jiskra swore loyalty to the king and handed over the castles he still held. Afterwards Jiskra fought in the service of King Matthias until his death.
1526
Battle of Mohács and the splitting of Hungary into two parts
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1526
Sultan Suleiman I launched a war against Vienna, instigated by the French. Ferdinand I, Duke of Austria, was the brother-in-law of King Louis II of Hungary. The army of the Ottoman Empire defeated the much smaller Hungarian army at Mohács, and King Louis II died in the battle. A group of the barons elected Ferdinand I of the House of Habsburg to the throne, who promised to defend Hungary from the Turks. He was the younger brother of the most powerful European monarch Emperor Charles V. But the nobility chose the most powerful Hungarian baron, Szapolyai János, who was also crowned as King John I. The country was split in two and a decades-long struggle for power began.
1541
The Turkish occupation of the capital, Buda, and the division of Hungary into three parts
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1541
The Turks conquered Buda, the capital of Hungary, after the death of King John I. The central part of the country was under Turkish rule for 150 years. The western and northern parts (including present-day Slovakia) formed the Kingdom of Hungary ruled by the Habsburg emperors. The eastern parts (now mainly under Romanian rule) were ruled by the successors of King John I of Hungary, who later established the Principality of Transylvania.
1542
Lévai Cseh Gábor supported King Ferdinand, but he was fatally wounded at the siege of Buda. His son was under age so his widow, Thurzó Anna married Balassa Menyhért, the ispán of Bars, to protect the child.
spring 1544
Balassa Menyhért heroically protected Esztergom from the Turks attacking by night. The captain of Surány, Nyári Ferenc crushed the retreating Turks in a valley near the town of Szalka and cut down 500 janissaries.
1546
Dobó István became the captain of the important border castle. From 1548 he became the captain of Eger, which he defended against an enormous Turkish army in 1552.
summer 1549
Bebek Ferenc together with General Salm besieged the castles of the rogue knight Balassa Menyhért (Léva, Szitnya, Csábrág), who was pillaging the area. Although Balassa fled to Transylvania, Léva could only be taken by hard siege. Lévai Cseh János, who grew up in the meantime, got back Léva. Later he died without a son.
1550s
The castle was reinforced by cannon bastions.
1558
King Ferdinand gave the castles of Léva and Végles to Dobó István, who started a large-scale construction in Léva. He also built a mansion.
1568
Dobó István was arrested in Vienna based on forged accusations, but he could escape by disguising himself a peasant with the help of his servants. He retreated to the castle of Léva.
1569
Dobó István and Balassa Menyhért was arrested when they attended the country assembly in Pozsony. They were locked in the castle of Pozsony, but were treated like noble guests.
1570
The establishment of the Principality of Transylvania
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1570
John II (John Sigismund), the son of King John I of Hungary, renounced the title of King of Hungary in favor of King Maximilian of the House of Habsburg, and henceforth held the title of Prince. This formally created the Principality of Transylvania, which was the eastern half of Hungary not ruled by the Habsburgs and was also a vassal of the Ottoman Empire. John II died in 1571, after which the three nations of Transylvania (the Hungarian nobility, the Székelys and the Saxons) elected the prince.
spring 1570
Balassa Menyhért escaped from captivity, but the sick Dobó could not attempt the escape.
1572
Dobó István was released and he died soon after in the castle of Szerednye. Léva was inherited by his son, Dobó Ferenc, who was Ispán of Bars until his death in 1602. He died without children.
1578
Léva successfully repelled a Turkish siege.
1602
Dobó Ferenc died without a successor.
1604-1606
Uprising of Bocskai István
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1604-1606
The alliance of the Habsburgs and the Principality of Transylvania was defeated by the Ottoman Empire in the Fifteen Years' War. The war devastated Transylvania, which was occupied by the Habsburg imperial army, and General Basta introduced a reign of terror. The nobility and the burghers were upset about the terror, the plundering mercenaries and the violent Counter-Reformation. Bocskai István decided to lead their uprising after the Habsburg emperor tried to confiscate his estates. Bocskai also rallied the hajdú warriors to his side. He was elected Prince of Transylvania and soon liberated the Kingdom of Hungary from the Habsburgs. In 1605 Bocskai István was crowned King of Hungary with the crown he received from the Turks.
1605
Prince Bocskai István of Transylvania burned the town but the castle successfully resisted.
23 June 1606
Peace of Vienna
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23 June 1606
Bocski István made peace with Emperor Rudolf. Their agreement secured the constitutional rights of the Estates of Hungary, and the freedom of religion. The counties of Szatmár, Bereg and Ugocsa were annexed to the Principality of Transylvania. Bocskai died of illness in the same year, leaving to his successors the idea of unifying Hungary from Transylvania.
1619
The campaign of Prince Bethlen Gábor of Transylvania in the Thirty Years' War
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1619
At the beginning of the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648), Prince Bethlen Gábor of Transylvania went to war against the Habsburg emperor as an ally of the rebelling Czech-Moravian-Austrian estates. The whole Kingdom of Hungary joined him, only the Austrian defenders of Pozsony had to be put to the sword. With his allies, he laid siege to Vienna. However, he was forced to abandon the siege because the Habsburg-loyal Hungarian aristocrat Homonnai Drugeth György attacked his heartland with Polish mercenaries. On 25 August 1620, the Diet of Besztercebánya elected Bethlen Gábor King of Hungary as vassal of the Turks. He continued to fight after the defeat of the Czechs at White Mountain on 8 November 1620, but without real chance to achieve decisive victory, he decided to come to an agreement with Emperor Ferdinand II.
September 1619
Léva surrendered peacefully to Prince Bethlen Gábor of Transylvania.
31 December 1621
Peace of Nikolsburg
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31 December 1621
Prince Bethlen Gábor of Transylvania made peace with Emperor Ferdinand II. Their agreement secured the constitutional rights of the Estates of Hungary, and later it was supplemented with the freedom of religion. Bethlen renounced the title of King of Hungary in exchange for seven counties of the Upper Tisza region (Szabolcs, Szatmár, Bereg, Ugocsa, Zemplén, Borsod, Abaúj) for the rest of his life, other estates in Hungary as his private property and the imperial title of Duke of Oppeln and Ratibor (Opole and Racibórz), one of the Duchies of Silesia. Prince Bethlen went to war against the Habsburgs in 1623 and 1626, but was unable to negotiate more favourable terms.
1640
King Ferdinand III gave Léva to Csáky László, Captain of Léva.
1644-1645
The campaign of Prince Rákóczi György I of Transylvania in the Thirty Years' War
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1644-1645
Prince Rákóczi György I of Transylvania allied with the Swedes and the French in the Thirty Years' War and went to war against the Habsburg Emperor Ferdinand III. On 18 July 1645 his army joined forces with Torstenson's Swedish army under Brno (Moravia). The excellent artillery of Transylvania opened fire on the city walls. However, Rákóczi had to give up the siege, having been informed that the Turks were planning a punitive campaign against Transylvania, because he went to war against the Sultan's prohibition.
spring 1644
Prince Rákóczi György I of Transylvania besieged Léva, but it was soon liberated by the Imperials.
16 December 1645
Peace of Linz
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16 December 1645
Prince Rákóczi György I of Transylvania made peace with Emperor Ferdinand III. It secured the freedom of religion for the Protestants and extended it also to the serfs. Rákóczi received the same seven Hungarian counties that Prince Bethlen Gábor had also held (Abauj, Zemplén, Borsod, Bereg, Ugocsa, Szabolcs, Szatmár) until his death, and the counties of Szabolcs and Szatmár were also to be inherited by his sons. The Rákóczi family also received several new estates.
November 1645
Captain Csáky László repelled the attack of a large Turkish army.
after 1660
The Esterházy family acquired Léva.
November 1, 1663
After the fall of Érsekújvár, captain Bartakovich Gáspár surrendered Léva without a fight to the large Turkish army.
1664
General De Souches crushed the army of the pasha of Érsekújvár next to the town and took back Léva. Koháry István Sr. fell in this battle.
1665
The Turks besieged Léva, but De Souches liberated it.
after 1671
Kuruc Movement
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after 1671
Many noble, burgher and preacher fled to the Principality of Transylvania and the territory under Turkish occupation from the reprisals after the exposure of the anti-Habsburg Wesselényi-conspiracy and from the violent Counter-Reformation. They were joined by dismissed Hungarian soldiers of the Turkish border forts, who were replaced by German mercenaries. They were called the fugitives (bujdosók). They started an armed movement against the Habsburg rule. Because of the Turkish ban, the Principality of Transylvania could not openly support them. From 1677, the French supported their cause with money and Polish mercenaries. They achieved their first serious success when they temporarily occupied the mining towns of northern Hungary (now central Slovakia) under the command of Thököly lmre. He then became the sole leader of the movement. In 1679, the French made peace with Emperor Leopold I and withdrew their support for the fugitives. Between 1678 and 1681 Thököly Imre led successful raids against the Habsburgs and their supporters in the territory of the Kingdom of Hungary. The insurgents were called kurucs.
October 1678
Léva surrendered to the kuruc army of Thököly Imre, but after the lost battle at Barsszentkereszt on the 1st of November they had to give it up.
1682
Thököly Imre, Prince of Upper Hungary
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1682
Thököly Imre, the leader of the kuruc insurgents, gained the support of the Turks. He launched a campaign against the Habsburgs in the Kingdom of Hungary. With the support of the Turkish army, he occupied the town of Kassa and also the important stronghold of Fülek. He was then recognized by the Turks as King of Hungary, but he chose the title of Prince of Upper Hungary.
1682
Thököly Imre kuruc leader occupied Léva for a short time.
1683
Turkish defeat at Vienna and the formation of the Holy League
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1683
The combined armies of the Habsburg Empire and the Kingdom of Poland defeated the Turkish army besieging Vienna. Emperor Leopold I wanted to make peace with the Turks, but was refused by Sultan Mehmed IV. In 1684, at the persistent urging of Pope Innocent XI, the Holy League, an alliance of the Kingdom of Poland, the Habsburg Empire, the Republic of Venice and the Papal States, was formed to expel the Turks from Hungary. Thököly Imre, who had allied himself with the Turks, was gradually driven out of northern Hungary.
1685
The Turkish captivity of Thököly Imre and the fall of the kuruc movement
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1685
The Pasha of Várad captured Thököly Imre as he was asking for Turkish help and offered him to Emperor Leopold I for peace. But the Imperial emissaries laughed at his face, because, having the upper hand, they no longer cared for Thököly. On the news of his capture, the town of Kassa and the kuruc strongholds surrendered to the Emperor one after the other. The Turks, seeing their fatal mistake, released Thököly the following year and tried to restore his authority, but his power was broken forever and the Hungarian insurgents no longer trusted the Turks. Most of the insurgents joined the imperial army and helped to liberate the rest of Hungary from the Turks.
1686
Recapture of Buda and the liberation of Hungary from the Turks
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1686
The army of the Holy League recaptured Buda from the Turks by siege. In 1687, the Imperial army invaded the Principality of Transylvania. The liberation was hindered by the French breaking their promise of peace in 1688 and attacking the Habsburg Empire. By 1699, when the Peace of Karlóca was signed, all of Hungary and Croatia had been liberated from the Ottoman Empire with the exception of Temesköz, the area bounded by the Maros, the Tisza and the Danube rivers. It was not until the Peace of Požarevac in 1718 that Temesköz was liberated from the Turks. However, the continuous war against the Turkish invaders and the Habsburg autocracy, which lasted for more than 150 years, wiped out large areas of the Hungarian population, which had previously made up 80% of the country's population, and was replaced by Vlachs (Romanians), Serbs and other Slavic settlers and Germans. The Habsburgs also favoured the settlement of these foreign peoples over the 'rebellious' Hungarians.
1696
A large fire devastated the town and the castle was also damaged.
1702
According to the decree of Emperor Leopold I that ordered the demolition of many Hungarian castles, the walls of the castle were damaged.
1703-1711
Hungarian War of Independence led by Prince Rákóczi Ferenc II
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1703-1711
After the expulsion of the Turks, the Habsburgs treated Hungary as a newly conquered province and did not respect its constitution. The serfs rose up against the Habsburg ruler because of the sufferings caused by the war and the heavy burdens, and they invited Rákóczi Ferenc II to lead them. Trusting in the help promised by King Louis XIV of France, he accepted. Rákóczi rallied the nobility to his side, and soon most of the country was under his control. The rebels were called the kurucs. In 1704, the French and the Bavarians were defeated at the Battle of Blenheim, depriving the Hungarians of their international allies. The Rusyn, Slovak and Vlach peasants and the Saxons of Szepes supported the fight for freedom, while the Serbs in the south and the Saxons in Transylvania served the Habsburgs. Due to lack of funds Rákóczi could not raise a strong regular army, and in 1710, Hungary was also hit by a severe plague. Rákóczi tried unsuccessfully to forge an alliance with Tsar Peter the Great of Russia. In his absence, without his knowledge, his commander-in-chief, Károlyi Sándor, accepted Emperor Joseph I's peace offer. The Peace of Szatmár formally restored the Hungarian constitution and religious freedom and granted amnesty, but did not ease the burden of serfdom. Rákóczi refused to accept the pardon and went into exile. He died in Rodosto, Turkey.
September 17, 1703
The kuruc troops of Ocskay László occupied Léva.
October 31, 1703
The Imperials captured Léva, but after the battle of Zólyom on the 15th of November the insurgents recaptured it.
1708
The insurgents retreating from the Imperial army of Heister set the castle on fire.
1848-1849
Hungarian Revolution and War of Independence
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1848-1849
Following the news of the Paris Revolution on 22 February 1848, the Hungarian liberal opposition led by Kossuth Lajos demanded the abolition of serfdom, the abolition of the tax exemption of the nobility, a parliament elected by the people, and an independent and accountable national government. The revolution that broke out in Pest on 15 March expressed its demands in 12 points, which, in addition to the above mentioned, included the freedom of the press, equality before the law, the release of the political prisoners and the union with Transylvania. A Hungarian government was formed, Batthyány Lajos became prime minister, and on 11 April Emperor Ferdinand V ratified the reform laws. On August 31 the Emperor demanded the repeal of the laws threatening with military intervention. In September the Emperor unleashed the army of Jelacic, Ban of Croatia, on Hungary, but they were defeated by the Hungarians in the Battle of Pákozd on 29 September. An open war began for the independence of Hungary. The Habsburgs incited the nationalities against the Hungarians. The Rusyns, the Slovenes and most of the Slovaks and Germans supported the cause persistently, but the Vlachs (Romanians) and the Serbians turned against the Hungarians. The glorious Spring Campaign in 1849 led by General Görgei Artúr liberated almost all of Hungary. On 1 May 1849, Emperor Franz Joseph, effectively admitting defeat, asked for the help of Tsar Nicholas I of Russia, who sent an intervention army of 200,000 soldiers against Hungary. The resistance became hopeless against the overwhelming enemy forces and on 13 August Görgei Artúr surrendered to the Russians at Világos. Bloody reprisals followed, and on 6 October 1849, 12 generals and a colonel of the Hungarian Revolution, the martyrs of Arad, were executed in Arad. On the same day, Batthyány Lajos, the first Hungarian Prime Minister, was executed by firing squad in Pest. The Habsburgs introduced total authoritarianism in Hungary, but they also failed to fulfil their promises to the nationalities that had betrayed the Hungarians.
1867
Austro-Hungarian Compromise
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1867
The Habsburg Empire was weakened by the defeats it suffered in the implementation of Italian and German unity. The Hungarians wanted to return to the reform laws of 1848, but they did not have the strength to do so. Emperor Franz Joseph and the Hungarian opposition, led by Deák Ferenc, finally agreed to restructure the Empire and abolish absolutism. Hungary was given autonomy in its internal affairs, with its own government and parliament, which was essential for the development of its economy and culture. However, foreign and military affairs remained in the hands of the Habsburgs and served their aspiration for becoming a great power. The majority wanted Hungary's independence, but they were excluded from political power.
1887
Léva got railway connection on the Párkány–Csata–Léva line.
1914-1918
World War I
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1914-1918
As part of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, Hungary took part in the war on the side of the Central Powers.
November 1918 - January 1919
The Czech, Romanian and Serbian occupation of Hungary
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November 1918 - January 1919
In Hungary, the freemasonic subversion brought the pro-Entente Károlyi Mihály to power. The new government, naively trusting the Entente powers, met all their demands and disbanded the Hungarian military, which rendered the country completely defenseless in the most dire need. Under French and Italian command, Czech, Romanian and Serbian troops invaded large parts of Hungary, where they immediately began the takeover. They fired Hungarian railway workers, officials and teachers, banned the use of the Hungarian language, abolished Hungarian education, and disposed of everything that reminded them of the country's Hungarian past. Hundreds of thousands of Hungarians were forced to leave their homeland, and the forcible assimilation of the remaining Hungarians was begun.
January 11, 1919
The Czechoslovaks invaded Léva.
21 March - 1 August 1919
Communist takeover and the Northern Campaign
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21 March - 1 August 1919
After the Entente put vast areas with a Hungarian population under foreign administration, the pro-Entente government resigned and the traitorous Prime Minister Károlyi Mihály handed over power to the communists, who had little support anyway. They raised the Hungarian Red Army, which liberated large parts of northern Hungary from Czech occupation in the 'Northern Campaign'. The aim was to unite with the Russian Red Army, which ultimately failed because of the Russians' defeat. French Prime Minister Clemenceau promised the Jewish Kun Béla that he would recognise the Hungarian Soviet Republic and invite it to the peace conference if it would call back the army from northern Hungary. Calling back the army demoralized the soldiers, who fought for their homeland and not for communism. Clemenceau broke his promise and let the Romanian horde cross the Tisza River and capture Budapest.
June 3, 1919
The army of the Hungarian Soviet Republic liberated Léva from the Czechoslovak invaders.
4 June 1920
Trianon Dictate
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4 June 1920
Hungary was forced to sign the Treaty of Trianon, although the country was not invited to the peace talks. Hungary lost two thirds of its territory that had belonged to it for more than 1000 years. One-third of the Hungarian population came under foreign rule. On the basis of the national principle, countries with a more mixed and less ethnically balanced composition than the former Hungary were created, such as Czechoslovakia and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later Yugoslavia). For example, while 48% of the population of the territory ceded to Czechoslovakia was Slovak and 30% Hungarian, 54% of the population of the former Hungary was Hungarian and 10.6% Slovak. And in the territory that is now part of Serbia, the Hungarians outnumbered the Serbs. The part of the territory allocated to Romania from Hungary was larger than the remaining territory of Hungary, despite the fact that there were 10 million Hungarians and less than 3 million Romanians in the former Hungary. While Hungary used to have the most liberal nationality policy in Europe, the successor states had no respect at all for the national and cultural rights of the indigenous Hungarians and engaged in forced assimilation. The Trianon Dictate destroyed the organic economic unity of the region. Before the First World War, Hungary had a dynamic economy, more advanced than Spain's. After 1920, the successor states formed the so-called "Little Entente", putting Hungary under an economic blockade and sabotaging it on the international stage.
2 November 1938
First Vienna Award
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2 November 1938
Under the First Vienna Award, Hungary regained 11,927 km2 of territory from Czechoslovakia. Its population was 869 thousand people, 86.5% of whom were Hungarian. France and Great Britain did not take part in the decision taken by Germany and Italy, citing disinterest, but acknowledged its validity.
November 2, 1938
Léva returned to Hungary according to the First Vienna Award. It became the seat of Bars and Hont counties.
Autumn 1944 - Spring 1945
Soviet occupation
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Autumn 1944 - Spring 1945
The Soviet Red Army occupied Hungary and Slovakia, which resulted in the recreation of Czechoslovakia.
December 20, 1944
The Soviets invaded Léva.
5 April 1945
Beneš decrees and the persecution of Hungarians
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5 April 1945
In Hungarian-majority Kassa, the president of occupying Czechoslovakia, Edvard Beneš, promulgated his government program, the so-called Beneš decrees. As part of this, the Hungarian population was deprived of their rights. Their complete expulsion was planned, with the support of the Soviet Union, and only the veto of the USA prevented it. Under the 'Reslavakization' programme, only those Hungarians who recognised themselves as Slovaks were allowed to regain their rights, thus renouncing all linguistic and cultural rights. In the violent expulsions that followed, nearly 200,000 Hungarians were deprived of their property and expelled from their homeland on the basis of their nationality.
1945
One of many internment camps where the Czechoslovaks gathered the native Hungarians they wanted to expel because of their nationality operated in Léva. Most of the Hungarian population was deported, partly they fled.
1947
Paris Dictate
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1947
The Paris Dictate, in accordance with Soviet interests, did not recognise the just territorial revisions made by the two Vienna decisions and handed the reclaimed Hungarian-majority territories back to Czechoslovakia, Romania and Yugoslavia, where the Hungarians were subjected to severe atrocities, expulsions and deprivation of rights. It also seceded three more villages south of Pozsony from Hungary to Czechoslovakia.
1 January 1993
Dissolution of Czechoslovakia
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1 January 1993
Czechoslovakia disintegrated due to ethnic differences between Czechs and Slovaks, shortly after the withdrawal of Soviet tanks. Slovakia was formed entirely from territory carved out of historic Hungary, and Slovak national identity is still largely based on falsified history and artificial hatred of Hungarians. Despite deportations, expulsions, forced assimilation and strong economic pressure, there are still nearly half a million Hungarians living in the country.
Source: Wikipedia, varak.hu , arcanum.hu - Bánlaky József: A magyar nemzet hadtörténelme
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St. Joseph Franciscan Church and Monastery
Kostol svätého Jozefa
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St. Joseph Franciscan Church and Monastery
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In 1675 Franciscan monks settled down in Léva and built a monastery. They built a church next to the monastery in 1720. In 1786 the Franciscans had to leave Léva because of the decree of Emperor Joseph II. The Piarist grammar school was opened in the monastery in 1815 at the initiative of Bossányi Krisztina. The new building of the grammar school was completed in 1886. The Hungarian poet Juhász Gyula also taught in the school. After the Czechoslovak invasion, it became a Czechoslovak grammar school and the Hungarian-language education became limited in the Hungarian town. Now a Slovak commercial school occupies the building.
St. Michael Roman Catholic Church
Kostol svätého Michala archanjela
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St. Michael Roman Catholic Church
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The church existed already in the 14th century and was dedicated to St. László of Hungary. By the middle of the 16th century the Catholics disappeared because of the Reformation. In 1624 Archbishop Pázmány Péter of Esztergom sent Jesuits to Léva. In 1647 the church was dedicated to St. Michael the Archangel, the popular guardian of the war against the Turks. In 1633 Léva was occupied by the Turks and the church was turned into a mosque. In 1675 the Jesuits were replaced by Franciscan Minorites. In 1676 the church burned down, but it was rebuilt and enlarged in 1698 by Baron Jaklin Miklós and a stone tower was also added. After fires Esterházy Miklós reconstructed the church in 1786, but it burned down again in 1808 and was left without a tower. Its current towers were built in 1902 and the 3 meters tall statue of Saint László of Hungary was placed between them.
Calvinist Church
Kalvínský kostol.
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Calvinist Church
History
The church was built between 1785 and 1788 in Zopf style. Its tower was erected in 1824. A plaque was unveiled in 2007 in memory of the Hungarians, who were deported to Bohemia in 1947 and also who were expelled from their homeland because of their nationality.
There is a memorial stone in front of the church in memory of the two Protestant preachers (Czeglédi Péter and Rimaszombati Kis János) from Léva, who were sentenced to serve on the galleys. The memorial was unveiled in 2016.
Lutheran Church
Evanjelický kostol a.v.
Originally:
church
Currently:
church
Church:
Lutheran
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Lutheran Church
History
The church was built in 1843 in Classicist style.
Calvary
Rozhladna na Levickej Kalvarii
Originally:
calvary
Currently:
church
Church:
Roman Catholic
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Calvary
History
Public buildings
former Town Hall
History
It was built in 1902 in eclectic style according to the plans of the architect Czibulka Dezső.
Cultural facilities
former Girl's School of the Merciful Sisters of Saint Vincent de Paul
SOŠ služieb
Originally:
school
Currently:
school
Church:
Roman Catholic
Note:
Vocational School.
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former Girl's School of the Merciful Sisters of Saint Vincent de Paul
History
The girl's school was opened in 1881 at the initiative of Szepesi lmre, who was born in Léva. He and the Archbishop of Esztergom made large contribution for the school. It was closed in 1945 after the Soviet invasion.
Piarist Grammar School
Originally:
school
Currently:
school
Church:
Roman Catholic
Note:
Trade school.
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Piarist Grammar School
History
In 1675 Franciscan monks settled down in Léva and built a monastery. They built a church next to the monastery in 1720 with the help of Baron Jaklin. In 1786 the Franciscans had to leave Léva because of the decree of Emperor Joseph II that banned several Catholic monastic orders. In 1806 the buildings were auctioned off. Bossányi Krisztina, the wife of Szentiványi János, vice ispán of Bars, convinced his husband to do everything so that a grammar school could be opened in the building. After long and persistent work the Piarist Grammar School of Léva was finally opened on November 5, 1815 on the day of the feast of St. Imre. In 1886 it became a main grammar school of 8 classes, where final exams could also be taken. The new building of the grammar school was completed in 1886. The Hungarian poet Juhász Gyula also taught at the school. After the Czechoslovak invasion it became a Czechoslovak grammar school and the Hungarian-Ianguage education became limited in the Hungarian town. The Piarists handed over the grammar school to the Catholic parish in 1922. When the town returned to Hungary in 1938, the leadership of the town asked the Piarists to return, but the conditions didn't make it possible. Now a Slovak commercial school occupies the building.
former Teacher Training Academy, Reformed Pastor's Office
Originally:
university / college
Currently:
parish
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former Teacher Training Academy, Reformed Pastor's Office
History
It was built in 1873 and it functioned as a Teacher Training Academy until 1911, when the Reformed parish purchased it and opened an elementary school in it. It was expropriated by the Czechoslovak state in 1945. The Reformed parish established a grammar school in 2000, which was located in the building until 2015. It has been used by the Károli Gáspár Reformed University (a Hungarian university) for the purpose of education ever since.
new building of the Teacher Training Academy
Stredná odborná škola pedagogická
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Originally:
university / college
Currently:
school
Note:
Secondary school.
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new building of the Teacher Training Academy
History
The construction was decided in 1907, because the old building became too small.
Commerce, industry, hospitality
Lion Hotel
Originally:
hotel / tavern / guesthouse
Currently:
hotel / tavern / guesthouse
Note:
Hotel Lev.
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Lion Hotel
History
The Lion Hotel was built between 1909 and 1910 in Art-Nouveau style. The architects were Morbitzer Nándor and Vas József. The hotel had a theatre of 600 seats. The first cinema of the town, the Apollo Cinema, was opened in the building in 1912.
Schoeller Rolling Mill
Borovszky Samu / Public domain
Originally:
mill
Currently:
house
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Schoeller Rolling Mill
History
In 1861 Schoeller Sándor and Pál leased the estate of Léva from Esterházy Pál and in 1869 they purchased it from the aristocrat. It was an estate of 10,000 hectares. The water mill was built in 1882. It was turned into a steam mill in 1900.
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Museum of Bars
History
The museum is located in the captain's building of the castle of Léva. The museum was established thanks to Nécsey József, the postmaster of Verebély, who donated his collection to the museum in 1927. It included archeological finds, paintings, documents, books and ethnographic objects. Later the museum acquired part of the Africa-collection of Kittenberger Kálmán, who was born in Léva.
Kittenberger Kálmán (1881-1958) was a Hungarian traveler, zoologist, teacher and hunter. He spent 16 years in Africa and discovered 300 new animal species. He survived a malaria infection and a lion attack. He spent 5 years in British captivity in India because of his Hungarian citizenship during World War I. His rich Africa-collection of 60.000 pieces was stored in the Hungarian National Museum in Budapest. Sorrowfully it was nearly completely destroyed in a fire during the fights of the Hungarian Revolution in 1956.
Private buildings
Schöeller Manor House
Borovszky Samu / Public domain
Originally:
mansion / manor house
Currently:
destroyed
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Schöeller Manor House
History
The manor house was built in 1868 in Neo-Classicist style. It was located in the town park. It was destroyed in the Second World War.
Dobó Mansion, Exhibition Hall of the Museum of Bars
Dobóovský kaštieľ
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mansion / manor house
Currently:
exhibition hall
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Dobó Mansion, Exhibition Hall of the Museum of Bars
History
The mansion was built by Dobó István, the captain of Eger Castle, in 1571.
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Józsefcsek House
History
The building that once stood on its site hosted the Golden Crown Apothecary. The construction permit for the current building was issued in 1929 at the request of the widow of Jószefcsek Károly.
Knapp House
Originally:
house
Currently:
hotel / tavern / guesthouse
Note:
Golden Eagle Hotel.
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Knapp House
History
The house was built in Art-Nouveau style between 1905 and 1906 by the rich Jewish merchant Knapp Dávid. It is now the Golden Eagle Hotel.
Calvin Courtyard
History
lt is owned by the Calvinist parish. The construction was started in 1908 at the expense of the Calvinist parish according to the plans of the architect Czibulka Dezső.
Klain House
History
The house was built between 1902 and 1903 in eclectic and Art-Nouveau style for the family of Klain Ede. Previously the southeastern bastion and gate (Market Gate or Gate of Bát) of the town's fortification stood on its site. There were shops and flats in the Klain House and the Bank of Bars County was also located in the building.
Boros House
History
The Wertheimer family built the house in 1905 in eclectic, Art-Nouveau style.
Memorials
Memorial of Koháry István
Originally:
statue / memorial / relief
Currently:
statue / memorial / relief
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Memorial of Koháry István
History
The memorial stands where Koháry István, the captain of Fülek Castle and the lspán of Hont County, fell against the Turks in the battle of Léva on July 19, 1664.
Memorial of the Hungarian War of Independence between 1848 and 1849
Borovszky Samu / Public domain
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statue / memorial / relief
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statue / memorial / relief
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Memorial of the Hungarian War of Independence between 1848 and 1849
History
On April 19, 1849 the Hungarians under the command of Damjanich János and Klapka György achieved a glorious victory over the Imperials at Nagysalló (20 kilometers from Léva) during the Spring Campaign. The injured Hungarian soldiers were transported to the hospital of Léva, where 200 of them died. In memory of the heroes a memorial was erected in 1871. The town had a large Hungarian majority. After the Czechoslovak invasion, the commemorations were punished by imprisonment. The memorial was renovated in 2015 from the contribution of the local Hungarian inhabitants.
Trinity Statue
Originally:
statue / memorial / relief
Currently:
statue / memorial / relief
Church:
Roman Catholic
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Trinity Statue
History
The statue was erected by Huszár János in 1777 in front of the church of St. Joseph.
Immaculata Statue
Originally:
statue / memorial / relief
Currently:
statue / memorial / relief
Church:
Roman Catholic
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Immaculata Statue
History
The statue was erected in 1786 by the Catholics as a protest in front of the Reformed church, which was under construction at that time.
Plaque of Kittenberger Kálmán
History
The memorial plaque of Kittenberger Kálmán made by Csillag András was unveiled in 2010 on the wall of a factory on Koháry Street.
Plaque of Esterházy János
History
The plaque was placed on the facade of the Czeglédi Péter Reformed Grammar School in 2014. There is a quote from the Hungarian martyr politician written on it: "there can be no room for resignation".
Count Esterházy János (1901-1957) was a Hungarian Christian martyr politician, who fought for the rights of the oppressed Hungarians in Czechoslovakia, where they were held under constant pressure of assimilation. He fought for the rightful revision of the Trianon Dictate, which forced almost 1 million Hungarians to live under Czechoslovak rule in their own homeland. After the First Vienna Award in 1938, he stayed in the newly created Slovakia to fight for the Hungarians still living under foreign rule. He became the only Hungarian member of the Slovak Parliament and he alone voted against the expulsion of the Jews in 1942. He helped hundreds of Jews, Czechs, Slovaks and Poles escape from the fascists, for which he was interned. After the Soviet invasion the Soviets also interned him, but he was soon released. He negotiated with Gustav Husak, the representative of the Slovak government, and spoke against the persecution of the Hungarians. But Husák handed him over to the Soviet secret agency and afterwards he was sentenced to 10 years of forced labor based on forged accusations and was sent to the Gulag. In the meantime in 1947 the Slovak National Court sentenced him to death for cooperating (!) with the fascists. The Soviets gave him out to the Czechoslovak authorities in 1949. The presidential "pardon" changed his sentence to life imprisonment. He was dragged from prison to prison throughout Czechoslovakia until he died in 1957 in the prison of Mírov in Moravia. Not even his body was given out to his family. Esterházy János was reburied in 2017 in Alsóbodok (Dolné Obdokovce) in the Chapel of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross built for this purpose.
Plaque of Baross Gábor
History
The plaque is on the corner of the Calvin Courtyard on the main square. Baross Gábor attended the Piarist grammar school of Léva between 1857 and 1861.
Baross Gábor (1848-1892) was the Minister of Transportation and later the Minister of Commerce of Hungary. He was called "iron minister" because of his great achievements in the development of railway transportation in Hungary. He started the regulation of the Danube River at the impassable Iron-Gate Rapids by constructing canals. This opened up the eastern trade to Hungary. Sorrowfully he caught a chill in 1892 while he was inspecting the constructions and died.
Museums and Galleries
Synagogue
Synagóga v Leviciach
Originally:
synagogue
Currently:
event center
Church:
Jewish
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Synagogue
History
It was built in 1857 in Classicist style.
Museum of Bars
History
The museum is located in the captain's building of the castle of Léva. The museum was established thanks to Nécsey József, the postmaster of Verebély, who donated his collection to the museum in 1927. It included archeological finds, paintings, documents, books and ethnographic objects. Later the museum acquired part of the Africa-collection of Kittenberger Kálmán, who was born in Léva.
Kittenberger Kálmán (1881-1958) was a Hungarian traveler, zoologist, teacher and hunter. He spent 16 years in Africa and discovered 300 new animal species. He survived a malaria infection and a lion attack. He spent 5 years in British captivity in India because of his Hungarian citizenship during World War I. His rich Africa-collection of 60.000 pieces was stored in the Hungarian National Museum in Budapest. Sorrowfully it was nearly completely destroyed in a fire during the fights of the Hungarian Revolution in 1956.
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The castle of Bars was a motte and bailey castle and was destroyed during the Mongol invasion in 1241-42.@after 1242|After the Mongol invasion a royal castle and a church was erected on the Baratka hill, and it became the center of Bars County.@#5|@1271|Ottokar II of Bohemia besieged it but could not occupy it.@#6|@1312|The Hungarian oligarch Cs\u00e1k M\u00e1t\u00e9 occupied L\u00e9va.@1321|Cs\u00e1k M\u00e1t\u00e9 died. After the fall of Trecs\u00e9n, the seat of Cs\u00e1k M\u00e1t\u00e9, the castellan of L\u00e9va, Kistapolcs\u00e1nyi Gyula surrendered to King Charles I of Hungary. The king appointed Becsei Imre as the royal isp\u00e1n of Bars.@1330|Sebe, the daughter of Z\u00e1ch Felici\u00e1n was beheaded in the castle. Z\u00e1ch Felici\u00e1n, an ex-follower of the oligarch Cs\u00e1k M\u00e1t\u00e9, tried to kill the king (Charles I) after one of his daughter, Kl\u00e1ra, was raped by the brother of Queen Elisabeth. He injured the king's arm and cut off four of the queen's fingers. He was killed on the spot and his family was exterminated.@after 1387|King Sigismund gave the town to the baron L\u00e1szl\u00f3 son of S\u00e1r\u00f3i P\u00e9ter for his support. His son adopted the noble surname \u0022L\u00e9vai Cseh\u0022.@1440|After the death of King Albert of the House of Habsburg, the Estates of Hungary elected the Polish Ul\u00e1szl\u00f3 to the throne. Elisabeth, the widow queen, in order to secure the throne for L\u00e1szl\u00f3, her baby boy, called in the Czech Hussite mercenary leader Jan Jiskra. She gave him the title \u0022Captain of the Mining Towns and Kassa\u0022, and gave him the castle of Z\u00f3lyom.@1440-1441|The Czech Hussites soon occupied much of northern Hungary. They reinforced the castles and turned them into bandit lairs. They were pillaging everywhere and large areas became uninhabited. They wiped out the local German and Hungarian population, who were replaced by Czech and other Slavic settlers. The Czech Hussite devastation largely contributed to the Slavicisation of northern Hungary (now Slovakia).@1440s|The Hussites burned the town, but the defenders of the castle repelled the attack.@1462|At the end of the war that King Matthias of Hungary had waged against the Hussites since 1458, Jiskra swore loyalty to the king and handed over the castles he still held. Afterwards Jiskra fought in the service of King Matthias until his death.@#8|@#9|@1542|L\u00e9vai Cseh G\u00e1bor supported King Ferdinand, but he was fatally wounded at the siege of Buda. His son was under age so his widow, Thurz\u00f3 Anna married Balassa Menyh\u00e9rt, the isp\u00e1n of Bars, to protect the child.@spring 1544|Balassa Menyh\u00e9rt heroically protected Esztergom from the Turks attacking by night. The captain of Sur\u00e1ny, Ny\u00e1ri Ferenc crushed the retreating Turks in a valley near the town of Szalka and cut down 500 janissaries.@1546|Dob\u00f3 Istv\u00e1n became the captain of the important border castle. From 1548 he became the captain of Eger, which he defended against an enormous Turkish army in 1552.@summer 1549|Bebek Ferenc together with General Salm besieged the castles of the rogue knight Balassa Menyh\u00e9rt (L\u00e9va, Szitnya, Cs\u00e1br\u00e1g), who was pillaging the area. Although Balassa fled to Transylvania, L\u00e9va could only be taken by hard siege. L\u00e9vai Cseh J\u00e1nos, who grew up in the meantime, got back L\u00e9va. Later he died without a son.@1550s|The castle was reinforced by cannon bastions.@1558|King Ferdinand gave the castles of L\u00e9va and V\u00e9gles to Dob\u00f3 Istv\u00e1n, who started a large-scale construction in L\u00e9va. He also built a mansion.@1568|Dob\u00f3 Istv\u00e1n was arrested in Vienna based on forged accusations, but he could escape by disguising himself a peasant with the help of his servants. He retreated to the castle of L\u00e9va.@1569|Dob\u00f3 Istv\u00e1n and Balassa Menyh\u00e9rt was arrested when they attended the country assembly in Pozsony. They were locked in the castle of Pozsony, but were treated like noble guests.@#10|@1572|Dob\u00f3 Istv\u00e1n was released and he died soon after in the castle of Szerednye. L\u00e9va was inherited by his son, Dob\u00f3 Ferenc, who was Isp\u00e1n of Bars until his death in 1602. He died without children.@1578|L\u00e9va successfully repelled a Turkish siege.@1602|Dob\u00f3 Ferenc died without a successor.@#13|@1605|Prince Bocskai Istv\u00e1n of Transylvania burned the town but the castle successfully resisted.@#14|@#15|@September 1619|L\u00e9va surrendered peacefully to Prince Bethlen G\u00e1bor of Transylvania.@#16|@1640|King Ferdinand III gave L\u00e9va to Cs\u00e1ky L\u00e1szl\u00f3, Captain of L\u00e9va.@#17|@spring 1644|Prince R\u00e1k\u00f3czi Gy\u00f6rgy I of Transilvania besieged L\u00e9va, but it was soon liberated by the Imperials.@#18|@November 1645|Captain Cs\u00e1ky L\u00e1szl\u00f3 repelled the attack of a large Turkish army.@after 1660|The Esterh\u00e1zy family acquired L\u00e9va.@November 1, 1663|After the fall of \u00c9rsek\u00fajv\u00e1r, captain Bartakovich G\u00e1sp\u00e1r surrendered L\u00e9va without a fight to the large Turkish army.@1664|General De Souches crushed the army of the pasha of \u00c9rsek\u00fajv\u00e1r next to the town and took back L\u00e9va. Koh\u00e1ry Istv\u00e1n Sr. fell in this battle.@1665|The Turks besieged L\u00e9va, but De Souches liberated it.@#21|@October 1678|L\u00e9va surrendered to the kuruc army of Th\u00f6k\u00f6ly Imre, but after the lost battle at Barsszentkereszt on the 1st of November they had to give it up.@#22|@1682|Th\u00f6k\u00f6ly Imre kuruc leader occupied L\u00e9va for a short time.@#23|@#24|@#25|@1702|According to the decree of Emperor Leopold I that ordered the demolition of many Hungarian castles, the walls of the castle were damaged.@#27|@September 17, 1703|The kuruc troops of Ocskay L\u00e1szl\u00f3 occupied L\u00e9va.@October 31, 1703|The Imperials captured L\u00e9va, but after the battle of Z\u00f3lyom on the 15th of November the insurgents recaptured it.@1708|The insurgents retreating from the Imperial army of Heister set the castle on fire.@#28|@#30|@#31|@#32|@#36|&"}],"sights":[{"sightId":545,"townId":28,"active":1,"name_LO":"Kostol sv\u00e4t\u00e9ho Michala archanjela","address":"Ivana Krasku 5, 934 05 Levice","mapdata":"1|531|1069","gps_lat":"48.2188460000","gps_long":"18.6047180000","religion":1,"oldtype":"1","newtype":"1","homepage":"","openinghours":"","muemlekemlink":"","csemadoklink":"http:\/\/emlekhelyek.csemadok.sk\/emlekhelyek\/szent-mihaly-arkangyal-templom-levan\/\r","picture":"\u003Ca title=\u0022Pe-Jo \/ CC BY-SA (https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0)\u0022 href=\u0022https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:LV-St._Mich._church2.jpg\u0022\u003E\u003Cimg width=\u0022256\u0022 alt=\u0022LV-St. Mich. church2\u0022 src=\u0022https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/5\/58\/LV-St._Mich._church2.jpg\/256px-LV-St._Mich._church2.jpg\u0022\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E","picture_ref":"\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:LV-St._Mich._church2.jpg\u0022 title=\u0022via Wikimedia Commons\u0022\u003EPe-Jo\u003C\/a\u003E \/ \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0\u0022\u003ECC BY-SA\u003C\/a\u003E","name":"St. Michael Roman Catholic Church ","seolink":"st-michael-roman-catholic-church","note":"","history":"The church existed already in the 14th century and was dedicated to St. L\u00e1szl\u00f3 of Hungary. 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Its tower was erected in 1824. A plaque was unveiled in 2007 in memory of the Hungarians, who were deported to Bohemia in 1947 and also who were expelled from their homeland because of their nationality.@There is a memorial stone in front of the church in memory of the two Protestant preachers (Czegl\u00e9di P\u00e9ter and Rimaszombati Kis J\u00e1nos) from L\u00e9va, who were sentenced to serve on the galleys. The memorial was unveiled in 2016."},{"sightId":548,"townId":28,"active":1,"name_LO":"Evanjelick\u00fd kostol a.v.","address":"Sv. 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The museum was established thanks to N\u00e9csey J\u00f3zsef, the postmaster of Vereb\u00e9ly, who donated his collection to the museum in 1927. It included archeological finds, paintings, documents, books and ethnographic objects. Later the museum acquired part of the Africa-collection of Kittenberger K\u00e1lm\u00e1n, who was born in L\u00e9va.@Kittenberger K\u00e1lm\u00e1n (1881-1958) was a Hungarian traveler, zoologist, teacher and hunter. He spent 16 years in Africa and discovered 300 new animal species. He survived a malaria infection and a lion attack. He spent 5 years in British captivity in India because of his Hungarian citizenship during World War I. His rich Africa-collection of 60.000 pieces was stored in the Hungarian National Museum in Budapest. Sorrowfully it was nearly completely destroyed in a fire during the fights of the Hungarian Revolution in 1956."},{"sightId":550,"townId":28,"active":1,"name_LO":"","address":"Koh\u00e1ryho 953\/2","mapdata":"1|341|707","gps_lat":"48.2229690000","gps_long":"18.6014280000","religion":0,"oldtype":"39","newtype":"39","homepage":"","openinghours":"","muemlekemlink":"","csemadoklink":"http:\/\/emlekhelyek.csemadok.sk\/emlekhelyek\/kittenberger-kalman-emlektablaja\/\r","picture":"\u003Ca title=\u0022Pe-Jo \/ CC BY-SA (https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0)\u0022 href=\u0022https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Kittenberger-L%C3%A9va.jpg\u0022\u003E\u003Cimg width=\u0022256\u0022 alt=\u0022Kittenberger-L\u00e9va\u0022 src=\u0022https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/d\/de\/Kittenberger-L%C3%A9va.jpg\/256px-Kittenberger-L%C3%A9va.jpg\u0022\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E","picture_ref":"\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Kittenberger-L%C3%A9va.jpg\u0022 title=\u0022via Wikimedia Commons\u0022\u003EPe-Jo\u003C\/a\u003E \/ \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0\u0022\u003ECC BY-SA\u003C\/a\u003E","name":"Plaque of Kittenberger K\u00e1lm\u00e1n ","seolink":"plaque-of-kittenberger-kalman","note":"","history":"The memorial plaque of Kittenberger K\u00e1lm\u00e1n made by Csillag Andr\u00e1s was unveiled in 2010 on the wall of a factory on Koh\u00e1ry Street."},{"sightId":551,"townId":28,"active":1,"name_LO":"Dob\u00f3ovsk\u00fd ka\u0161tie\u013e","address":"Sv. 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He started the regulation of the Danube River at the impassable Iron-Gate Rapids by constructing canals. This opened up the eastern trade to Hungary. Sorrowfully he caught a chill in 1892 while he was inspecting the constructions and died."},{"sightId":565,"townId":28,"active":1,"name_LO":"","address":"\u00a0ulica Sv. 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There is a quote from the Hungarian martyr politician written on it: \u0022there can be no room for resignation\u0022.@Count Esterh\u00e1zy J\u00e1nos (1901-1957) was a Hungarian Christian martyr politician, who fought for the rights of the oppressed Hungarians in Czechoslovakia, where they were held under constant pressure of assimilation. He fought for the rightful revision of the Trianon Dictate, which forced almost 1 million Hungarians to live under Czechoslovak rule in their own homeland. After the First Vienna Award in 1938, he stayed in the newly created Slovakia to fight for the Hungarians still living under foreign rule. He became the only Hungarian member of the Slovak Parliament and he alone voted against the expulsion of the Jews in 1942. He helped hundreds of Jews, Czechs, Slovaks and Poles escape from the fascists, for which he was interned. After the Soviet invasion the Soviets also interned him, but he was soon released. He negotiated with Gustav Husak, the representative of the Slovak government, and spoke against the persecution of the Hungarians. But Hus\u00e1k handed him over to the Soviet secret agency and afterwards he was sentenced to 10 years of forced labor based on forged accusations and was sent to the Gulag. In the meantime in 1947 the Slovak National Court sentenced him to death for cooperating (!) with the fascists. The Soviets gave him out to the Czechoslovak authorities in 1949. The presidential \u0022pardon\u0022 changed his sentence to life imprisonment. He was dragged from prison to prison throughout Czechoslovakia until he died in 1957 in the prison of M\u00edrov in Moravia. Not even his body was given out to his family. Esterh\u00e1zy J\u00e1nos was reburied in 2017 in Als\u00f3bodok (Doln\u00e9 Obdokovce) in the Chapel of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross built for this purpose."},{"sightId":566,"townId":28,"active":1,"name_LO":"","address":"Sv. 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The Piarists handed over the grammar school to the Catholic parish in 1922. When the town returned to Hungary in 1938, the leadership of the town asked the Piarists to return, but the conditions didn't make it possible. Now a Slovak commercial school occupies the building."},{"sightId":570,"townId":28,"active":1,"name_LO":"Stredn\u00e1 odborn\u00e1 \u0161kola pedagogick\u00e1","address":"F. 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