Place:Levice, Levice, Slovensko, Czechoslovakia

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NameLevice
Alt namesLewenzsource: Wikipedia
Lévasource: Wikipedia
TypeCity or town
Coordinates48.217°N 18.6°E
Located inLevice, Slovensko, Czechoslovakia
Also located inNitra, Slovakia    
Contained Places
Inhabited place
Stary Tekov
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Levice (; , Hungarian pronunciation: ; , 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), east of Bratislava, south-east of Nitra, south-west of Banská Štiavnica, south-west of Zvolen and from the border with Hungary.

It is the capital of the Levice District, which is the largest district in Slovakia at . The town's heraldic animal is lion (in Slovak lev), and the town's colours are green and yellow.

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Levice is first mentioned as Leua, one of the villages belonging to the parish of St. Martin's Church in Bratka in 1156. 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. Between 1581 and 1589, the settlement was the seat of the Captaincy of Lower Hungary. 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. In 1993 it became part of present-day Slovakia.

It was the hometown of Hungarian-American Eugene Fodor (1905–1991), the founder of Fodor's travel book company.

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