Szőny was a town in Hungary. Since 1977, it has been part of the city of Komárom.
Szőny
Szőny | |
|---|---|
  Location in Hungary | |
| Coordinates: 47°44′0″N 18°10′0″E / 47.73333°N 18.16667°E | |
| Country |  Hungary |
| Elevation | 377 ft (115 m) |
History
editThe Roman legion Legio I Adiutrix was based in Szőny from 86 AD to the mid-5th century and took part in several Parthian wars.[2]
The town has had many different names at different times. The town was known as Brigetio to the Romans, and was the site of the death of Roman Emperor Valentinian I in 375 AD.[3] An important Roman military diploma was found in the town in the early twentieth century, and it is now in the collection of the British Museum.[4] During the Middle Ages, the town was called Camarum. The town has one of the earliest records of conjoined twins: Helen and Judith.[5][6]
The town's name was first mentioned in a charter in 1211 as Sun. In 1249, it was named Sceun, mentioned for being the village of the Archbishop of Esztergom, which was then traded by King Béla IV for another village. In 1269 it was mentioned as terra Sceun, in 1397 as possessio Zyun and in 1422 as villa Zwn, a Komárom castle estate. By 1460, it was oppidum Zwny; a town, whose customs and income belonged to the Komárom castle. It was destroyed by the Ottomans in 1592. On 12 September, in 1627 Ferdinand II and the Turkish Sultan made the Peace of Szőnyi here.[7] The peace document was issued in three languages: Hungarian, Latin and Turkish, and reaffirmed the 1606 Zsitvatorok, 1615 Vienna, 1618 Komárom and 1625 colonial treaties.
During the 1848-49 revolution and war of independence, there were several major battles within the boundaries of the village. At the beginning of the 20th century, several pieces of the cannonballs used during the siege of Komárom were still visible in the wall of the Catholic church.
During the oil campaign of World War II, the Szőny oil refinery was a strategic bombing target.
References
edit- ^ "Location of O-Szony -Falling Rain Genomics". Archived from the original on 29 August 2007. Retrieved 20 March 2008.
- ^ "Legion XXIV - Legions of Imperial Rome". www.legionxxiv.org.
- ^ Latin Names of Modern Cities
- ^ "military diploma | British Museum". www.britishmuseum.org.
- ^ "THE HUNGARIAN CONJOINED TWINS - the Human Marvels". February 2006.
- ^ Weiden, Robin M. F. van der; Clausberg, Karl (29 August 2015). "The Conjoined Twin Sisters Helen and Judith (1701–1723) and Their Pictorial Impact in Later 18th-Century Science". Twin Research and Human Genetics. 18 (4): 419–424. doi:10.1017/thg.2015.40. PMID 26133671 – via Cambridge University Press.
- ^ Gévay: A szőnyi békekötés cikkelyei (Bécs/Vienna 1837)
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