Čachtice
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Čachtice is a village in Nové Mesto nad Váhom District in western Slovakia with a population of 3,611 (1991).
The village is situated between the Danubian Lowland and Little Carpathians. It is best known for the ruins of the nearby Čachtice Castle, home of the world's most prolific female serial killer Elizabeth Báthory. The castle stands on a hill featuring rare plants, which has been declared the National Nature Reserve "Čachtický hradný vrch" (Čachtice Castle Mountain) for this reason.
Settlements from the neolithic, eneolithic, Bronze age, Hallstatt period, La Tène period, Roman period and early Slavic period have been found here.
The first written reference to the settlement dates from 1263. Since 1392 Čachtice has been a town. In 1847 the parsonage was the meeting place of the first Slovak national and cultural society Tatrín, at which the definitive decision to use the central Slovak dialects as basis for the new standard of the Slovak language was adopted.
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