Ács
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Ács ({{langx|de|Atsch}}) is a town in Komárom-Esztergom county, northern Hungary.
Geography
Ács is located in Komárom District on the eastern side of the Little Hungarian Plain near where the Concó River enters the Danube.
It is below the Bársonyosi Hills, at the point where the Székes joins the Concó, three kilometer south of the Danube and eight kilometers southwest of the city of Komárno.
Name
The name literally means "carpenter". It refers to the carpenters who lived here in service to the king. The place name is attested as As in 1260 and 1270 and as Alch in 1297.{{Cite book |last=Kiss |first=Lajos |title=Földrajzi nevek etimológiai szótára |publisher=Akadémiai Kiadó |year=1980 |isbn=963-05-2277-2 |location=Budapest}}
History
Ács was a settlement in Roman times, in the province of Pannonia.{{Cite web|title=Rómaiak éltek Ács határában |trans-title=Romans lived in the border of Ács |date=7 May 2010 |language=hu |publisher=Múlt-kor |url=https://mult-kor.hu/cikk.php?id=28813&print=1 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180619035709/https://mult-kor.hu/cikk.php?id=28813&print=1 |archive-date=19 June 2018 |url-status=live |df=dmy}} There were two Roman castra, Ad Mures and Ad Statuas, in the area.{{Cite web|title=Kalandozások Pannóniában: római tábor az őskori kút mellett |language=hu |date=30 October 2007 |publisher=Múlt-kor |url=https://mult-kor.hu/cikk.php?id=18790 |url-status=live |df=dmy|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170302112002/http://mult-kor.hu/cikk.php?id=18790 |archive-date=2 March 2017 }}
An early mention in the 13th century called the place Iwan de As; and a document in 1346 called it Alchy.{{Cite book|editor-last=Borovszky |editor-first=Samu |year=1907 |chapter=Ács |title=Magyarország vármegyéi és városai |trans-title=The counties and cities of Hungary |volume=11. Komarom varmegye es Komarom |language=hu |location=Budapest |publisher=Orszagos Monografia Tarsasag |url=https://www.arcanum.hu/hu/online-kiadvanyok/Borovszky-borovszky-samu-magyarorszag-varmegyei-es-varosai-1/komarom-varmegye-es-komarom-sz-kir-varos-D60E/komarom-varmegye-kozsegei-irta-vende-aladar-D742/acs-D74A/}}
In 1970 it was declared a large commune (Nagyközség); and on 1 July 2007 it received townA town is less than 100,000 inhabitants. status.{{Cite news|last=Nagy |first=Tamás |date=16 September 2017 |title=Várossá válásának jubileumából díszpolgárokat avattak Ácson |trans-title=The citizens of Ács celebrated the tenth anniversary of becoming a town |language=hu |publisher=Kemma |url=https://www.kemma.hu/hirek/helyi-hirek/diszpolgar-avatas-acson-842041/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180618200140/https://www.kemma.hu/hirek/helyi-hirek/diszpolgar-avatas-acson-842041/ |archive-date=18 June 2018 |url-status=live |df=dmy}}
Twin towns – sister cities
Ács is twinned with:
- {{flagicon|SVK}} Zlatná na Ostrove, Slovakia
- {{flagicon|ROU}} Brăduț, Romania
- {{flagicon|GER}} Steinau, Germany
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Notes and references
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External links
{{Commons category|Ács}}
- {{Official website|http://www.acs-varos.hu/}} in Hungarian
- [http://www.terkepcentrum.hu/index.asp?go=map&tid=4428 Street map (Hungarian)]
- [http://www.civertan.hu/legifoto/legifoto.php?page_level=7 Aerial photographs of Ács]
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{{Komárom District}}
{{Komárom-Esztergom}}
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