Acsa

Place in Central Hungary, Hungary

Coat of arms

47°47′49.45″N 19°22′53.54″E / 47.7970694°N 19.3815389°E / 47.7970694; 19.3815389CountryHungaryRegionCentral HungaryCountyPestSubregionVáciRankVillageGovernment

• MayorRezső Szekeres^[1]Area

^[2]

• Total26.94 km² (10.40 sq mi)Population

(1 January 2008)^[3]

• Total1,528 • Density57/km² (150/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+1 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)Postal code

2683

Area code+36 27KSH code18573^[2]Websitewww.acsa.hu/index.php

Acsa is a village in Pest County, Hungary.

Location

The village lies at the foot of the Cserhát hills by the upper River Galga in Pest County, near the border with Nógrád County.

Population

Most of Acsa's population is Slovakian.

Communications

Route 2108 serves the village by road from Aszód and Balassagyarmat. Stopping trains of the Hungarian State Railways serve the village on line 78 (Aszód–Balassagyarmat–Ipolytarnóc). Acsa and Erdőkürt share a station ("Acsa-Erdőkürt"), between Püspökhatvan and Galgaguta.

Name

The village's name comes from the old Hungarian personal name Acsa. The personal name may originate from the Turkic ača, meaning "kindred". It was recorded as Acha in 1341.^[4]

History

At that time the village was owned by the Achai family and from 1422 it was the Palatine Miklós Garai's property. During Turkish rule (see Ottoman Hungary) the village was demolished, but later on Slovaks settled. From 1730 the village was the Prónay family's land.

Landmarks

The baroque Prónay castle, which was built around 1775 by Giovanni Battista Carlone (it is in Acsaújlak, but is not open to visitors)
The ruins of Csővár to the north
The Roman Catholic church, built in 1747
The village museum

Famous people

Sándor Prónay, knight and chamberlain, was born in Acsa in 1760.

References

^ "Közérdekű információk -> hivatalok" [Public information -> Mayors' offices] (in Hungarian). cegexpo.hu. Archived from the original on 6 September 2010. Retrieved 23 September 2009.
^ ^a ^b Acsa at the Hungarian Central Statistical Office (Hungarian).
^ Acsa^{[permanent dead link]} at the Hungarian Central Statistical Office (Hungarian). 1 January 2008
^ Kiss, Lajos (1980). Földrajzi nevek etimológiai szótára. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó. ISBN 963-05-2277-2.