Ňárad

Ňárad (Hungarian: Csiliznyárad, Hungarian pronunciation:[ˈtʃilizɲaːrɒd]) is a village and municipality in the Dunajská Streda District in the Trnava Region of south-west Slovakia.

History

The village was first recorded in 1468 as the estate of the Dóczy family. Until the end of World War I, it was part of Hungary and fell within the Tószigetcsilizköz district of Győr County. After the Austro-Hungarian army disintegrated in November 1918, Czechoslovakian troops occupied the area. After the Treaty of Trianon of 1920, the village 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, Czechoslovakian administration returned and the village became officially part of Czechoslovakia in 1947.

The former Slovakian names of the village were Topoľovec and Čiližský Ňárad.

Demography

In 1910, the village had 659, for the most part, Hungarian inhabitants. At the 2001 Census the recorded population of the village was 616 while an end-2008 estimate by the Statistical Office had the villages's population as 623. As of 2001, 95,13 per cent of its population was Hungarian while 4,55 per cent was Slovakian.