Acsa

This article is about a village in Hungary. For organisations abbreviated ACSA, see ACSA.

Acsa is a village in Pest County, Hungary.

Acsa
Coat of arms
Acsa Location of Acsa in Hungary
Coordinates: 47°47′49.45″N 19°22′53.54″E
Country	Hungary
Region	Central Hungary
County	Pest
Subregion	Váci
Rank	Village
Government
• Mayor	Rezső Szekeres[1]
Area [2]
• Total	26.94 km2 (10.40 sq mi)
Population  (1 January 2008)[3]
• Total	1,528
• Density	57/km2 (150/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	2683
Area code	+36 27
KSH code	18573[2]
Website	www.acsa.hu/index.php

Location

The village lies at the foot of the Cserhát hills by the upper River Galga in Pest County, near the border with Nógrád County.

Population

Most of Acsa's population is Slovakian.

Communications

Route 2108 serves the village by road from Aszód and Balassagyarmat. Stopping trains of the Hungarian State Railways serve the village on line 78 (Aszód–Balassagyarmat–Ipolytarnóc). Acsa and Erdőkürt share a station ("Acsa-Erdőkürt"), between Püspökhatvan and Galgaguta.

Name

The village's name comes from the old Hungarian personal name Acsa. The personal name may originate from the Turkic ača, meaning "kindred". It was recorded as Acha in 1341.^[4]

History

At that time the village was owned by the Achai family and from 1422 it was the Palatine Miklós Garai's property. During Turkish rule (see Ottoman Hungary) the village was demolished, but later on Slovaks settled. From 1730 the village was the Prónay family's land.

Landmarks

Prónay Castle

• The baroque Prónay castle, which was built around 1775 by Giovanni Battista Carlone (it is in Acsaújlak, but is not open to visitors)
• The ruins of Csővár to the north
• The Roman Catholic church, built in 1747
• The village museum

Famous people

Sándor Prónay, knight and chamberlain, was born in Acsa in 1760.

References

1. "Közérdekű információk -> hivatalok" [Public information -> Mayors' offices] (in Hungarian). cegexpo.hu. Archived from the original on 6 September 2010. Retrieved 23 September 2009.
2. Acsa at the Hungarian Central Statistical Office (Hungarian).
3. Acsa^{[permanent dead link]} at the Hungarian Central Statistical Office (Hungarian). 1 January 2008
4. Kiss, Lajos (1980). Földrajzi nevek etimológiai szótára. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó. ISBN 963-05-2277-2.

External links

• Welcoming (Vendégváró) (in Hungarian)
• Photos (Légifotók Acsáról) (in Hungarian)
• Acsa, village at Cserhát foot (Acsa, falu a Cserhát lábánál) (in Hungarian)
• Acsa (in Hungarian)
• Acsa Evangelical Congregation (Acsai Evangélikus Egyházközség) (in Hungarian)