FC Ajka

FC Ajka is an Hungarian football club located in Ajka, Hungary. It currently plays in Hungarian National Championship II. The team's colors are white and green.

Current Squad

As of 2 August, 2015. Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

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Ajka

Ajka (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈɒjkɒ]) is a city in Hungary with about 35,000 inhabitants. It is situated in the hills of Bakony.

History

Around 1000 BCE the area was inhabited by Celts. By the 2nd century CE the territory was conquered by the Romans. The Hungarians occupied the area in the early 10th century.

The village Ajka was named after the Ajka clan, which, in turn, got its name after its ancestor, a knight named Heiko who was a member of the retinue of Gisela, Princess of Bavaria, wife of King St. Stephen in the early 11th century. The village itself was first mentioned in 1214 when it was already about a hundred years old.

The village developed slowly during the next few centuries. Real prosperity came only in the second half of the 19th century when coal resources were found nearby. In the 1930s vast bauxite resources were found too. In 1937 the world's first krypton factory was built near Ajka.

During the industrialization wave of the Socialist Communist era Ajka was a natural choice to build a new industrial town. The new town – like several other industrial cities and towns – came into existence with the unification of several villages. Today's Ajka was created on January 1, 1960 by the unification of four villages (Ajka, Bódé, Tósok and Tósokberénd). In the following decades four additional villages (Csékút, Bakonygyepes, Padragkút and Ajkarendek) were annexed to the town. At the time of the unification Ajka had 15,375 residents. Many workers came to Ajka to find new jobs and homes there. Most of the population is working class.

Šajkaš

Šajkaš (Serbian Cyrillic: Шајкаш) is a village located in the Titel municipality, in the South Bačka District of Serbia. It is situated in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina. The village has a Serb ethnic majority and its population numbering 4,550 people (2002 census).

Name

In Serbian the village is known as Šajkaš (Шајкаш), in Croatian as Šajkaš, in Hungarian as Sajkásszentiván, and in German as Schatzdorf or Schajkasch-Sentiwan.

History

The Šajkaška district was the scene of a notorious massacre during the occupation of Bačka by the Hungarian army in January 1942. This cost almost 900 lives. The German minority left the village in 1944.

Historical population

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References

Coordinates: 45°16′N 20°05′E / 45.267°N 20.083°E / 45.267; 20.083

Chaika (boat)

A chaika (Ukrainian: чайка, Serbian: Шајка / Šajka, pl. Шајкe / Šajke; Slovene: šajka or plitka) was a wooden boat that could have a mast and sail, a type of galley, used in early modern warfare and cargo transport by the:

Types

Austrian

Tschaika were either 24 (Ganz Tschaika) or 12 metres (Halb Tschaika) in length, operated by sail or oars. Between 30 to 50 men were in service, commanded by an officer, with an NCO helmsman, an armourer, a drummer, two bowsmen, and up to 36 oarsmen.

Zaporizhian Host (Poland)

Chaikas were between 18 to 20 metres in length, 3 to 3.5 metres in width, and 3.5 to 4 metres in depth. The bottom of a chaika was carved out of a single tree trunk, with sides built out of wooden planks. To protect the boat from enemy guns or from sinking, reed bales were tied to the gunwales of the boat.