Vrakúň

Vrakúň Nyékvárkony
village
The reformed church
Location of the village
Coordinates: 47°56′00″N 17°36′00″E / 47.93333°N 17.60000°E / 47.93333; 17.60000
Country	Slovakia
Region	Trnava
District	Dunajská Streda
Named for	Aba (old Hungarian name)
Government [2][3]
• Mayor	Ákos Horváth (Party of the Hungarian Coalition)
Area
• Total	38.33[4] km2 (14.80[4] sq mi)
Elevation	114[5] m (374[5] ft)
Population  (2021)[6]
• Total	2,835[1]
• Estimate  (2008)	2,588
Ethnicity [6]
• Hungarians	92,67%
• Slovaks	7,09%
Time zone	UTC+1 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (EEST)
Postal Code	930 25[5]
Area code	+421 31[5]
Website	www.vrakun.sk

Vrakúň (Hungarian: Nyékvárkony, pronounced [ˈɲeːkvaːrkoɲ]) is a village and municipality in the Dunajská Streda District in the Trnava Region of south-west Slovakia.

According to professor Šimon Ondruš (1990), Vrakúň is of Slavic origin, from Proto-Slavic vorkъ (in East Slavic languages: vorok - a fence, a barrier),^[8] but documented only for the East Slavs.

The present-day municipality was formed in 1940 being when Várkony (Vrakúň) and Csallóköznyék (Nekyje na Ostrove) villages were unified under the name of Nyékvárkony by the Hungarian authorities.

Vrakúň (Várkony) is an ancient settlement, it existed already in the Avar age and its name is connected to the Oiarchunítani name. The village was first recorded in 1015. It was the age-old estate of the Amadé Family. Nyék was first recorded in 1165, it had first been the tribal territory of the Nyék tribe, later the village belonged to the Pozsony Castle. King Stephen III of Hungary granted nobility for the inhabitants of the village. In 1245, the village was donated to Neku son of Nech and his brother Peter son of Chueg by a charter of King Béla IV of Hungary in which the village is mentioned as Neeku. Until the end of World War I, both component villages were part of Hungary and fell within the Dunaszerdahely district of Pozsony County. After the Austro-Hungarian army disintegrated in November 1918, Czechoslovak troops occupied the area. After the Treaty of Trianon of 1920, the villages became officially part of Czechoslovakia. In November 1938, the First Vienna Award granted the area to Hungary and it was held by Hungary until 1945. After Soviet occupation in 1945, Czechoslovak administration returned and the village became officially part of Czechoslovakia in 1947.

In 1910, Csallóköznyék had had 643, while Várkony had 866, for the most part, Hungarian inhabitants. At the 2001 Census the recorded population of the village was 2537 while an end-2008 estimate by the Statistical Office had the villages's population also as 2588. As of 2001, 92.67 per cent of its population was Hungarian while 7.09 per cent was Slovak.

Roman Catholicism is the majority religion of the village, its adherents numbering 93.61% of the total population.^[6]

The municipality lies at an altitude of 114 metres and covers an area of 38.336 km².

• Local news selection at www.parameter.hu (in Hungarian)
• Mestá-Obce.sk (in Slovak)
• Satellite image of the village