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Levice (; (ハンガリー語:Léva), Hungarian pronunciation: ; (ドイツ語:Lewenz); (トルコ語:Leva), literally lionesses) is a town in western Slovakia. The town lies on the left bank of the lower Hron river. The Old Slavic name of the town was ''Leva'', which means "the Left One". The town is located in the north-eastern corner of the Danubian Lowland (''Podunajská nížina''), 110 km east of Bratislava, 40 km south-east of Nitra, 32 km south-west of Banská Štiavnica, 55 km south-west of Zvolen and 25 km from the border with Hungary. It is the capital of the Levice District, which is the largest district in Slovakia at 1,551 km². The town's heraldic animal is lion (in Slovak ''lev''), and the town's colours are green and yellow. ==History== Levice is first mentioned as Leua, one of the villages belonging to the parish of St. Martin's Church in Bratka ((ハンガリー語:Baratka)) in 1165. It was part of the comitatus Tekov (''Bars''). First attacked by the Turks in 1544, the town was set on fire while the castle was left unharmed. The town was held by the Turks for two decades from 1663 to 1685. Under the Ottoman administration ''Leva'' was the center of a sandjak, which was part of the Uyvar eyalet. Ottoman rule came to an end in the summer of 1685, when the Austrian Imperial Army led by General de Souches claimed an important victory at the Battle of Levice, which took place beneath the town's castle. During the anti-Habsburg revolution of 1709, the fort was blown up by kuruces. After the break-up of Austria-Hungary, the town became a part of Czechoslovakia (confirmed by the Treaty of Trianon in 1920). As part of the breakup of Czechoslovakia under the Munich Agreement in World War II, the town again belonged to Hungary from 1938 to 1945. At the end of the Second World War it was returned to the restored Czechoslovakia, 75% of the town's Hungarian population was deported and replaced by Slovaks,thus the ratio of Hungarians fell from 89% to 12%. In 1993 it became part of present-day Slovakia. It was the hometown of Eugene Fodor (1905–1991), the founder of Fodor's travel book company. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Levice」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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