Blahová

Bláhová (Hungarian: Sárrét, Hungarian pronunciation:[ˈʃaːrreːt], meaning "Mudfield" ) is a village and municipality in the Dunajská Streda District in the Trnava Region of south-west Slovakia.

Bláhová Sárrét
village
Location of the village
Coordinates: 48°05′00″N 17°32′30″E
Country	Slovakia
Region	Trnava
District	Dunajská Streda
First written mention	1951
Named for	means 'mudfield' in Hungarian
Government
• Mayor	Natasa Rajcsányi[1]
Area
• Total	11.37 km^2 (4.39 sq mi)
Elevation	118 m (387 ft)
Population  (2001)[2]
• Total	359
• Estimate  (2008)	371
• Density	33/km^2 (90/sq mi)
Ethnicity [2]
• Hungarians	52.09%
• Slovaks	43.73%
Time zone	UTC+1 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (EEST)
Postal Code	930 52
Area code(s)	+421 31

It has a post-office. There is a football playground and a public library in the village.

History

Census 2011 - 356 inhabitants: 199 (56%) Slovaks, 112 (31%) Hungarians and 45 (13%) others nationality.

In the 9th century Great Moravian part, past year 906 the territory of Blahová became part of the Kingdom of Hungary. After the Austro-Hungarian army disintegrated in November 1918, Czechoslovak troops occupied the area, later acknowledged internationally by the Treaty of Trianon. Between 1938 and 1945 Blahová once more became part of Miklós Horthy's Hungary through the First Vienna Award. From 1945 until the Velvet Divorce, it was part of Czechoslovakia. Since then it has been part of Slovakia.

References

1. Local election 2010 results by the Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic Archived August 11, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
2. "Institute of Informatics and Statistics". Archived from Institute of Informatics and Statistics the original Check |url= value (help) on 2011-02-26.