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by Istvan Molnar, 10 March 2001
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Va'c is a beautiful town on the left bank of the Danube River
in Pest County in Hungary at the east gate of the Danube-Bend 35
km north from Budapest. The town is an important ferry. The town
has got 35.535 inhabitants (1990 census) nearly all of them are
Hungarians. Two of the Official Ethnic Minorities of Hungary has
got ethnic council in the town. They are: Gipsy and Slovakian.
The name of the town in Slovakian: Vacov, in German Waitzen.
The territory is populated from the Bronze Age. On the other bank
of the river is a Roman fortification. (The Danube was the border
of the Roman Empire. On the left bank was Pannonia Province.)
The first mention of the town was in 1075. It was a borough and
it was and it is the seat of the Episcopacy of Va'c founded by
King Saint Stephen. In Va'c King Ga'za I. is buried. In 1241 the
Mongols (Tatars) who devastated the Kingdom of Hungary, leadered
by Batu Khan burned up the city and killed its inhabitants. The
bishop of Va'c settled Germans to the city. In the Middle Ages
Va'c was one of the important cities of Hungary. In 1485 the city
was the place of the diet convened by King Mathias Corvinus. 3
years after the occupying of Buda by the Ottomans (1541), Va'c
was occupied