Ráckeve
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Ráckeve (Serbian: Mali Kovin / Мали Ковин, Gornji Kovin / Горњи Ковин, Rac Kovin / Рац Ковин, or Srpski Kovin / Српски Ковин) is a town on Csepel Island in Hungary. It is situated in the Pest County.
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[edit] Name
Name Ráckeve means "the Serb Kovin"; Rác is a name formerly used in Hungarian to designate Serbs, and Keve is a Hungarian name for the town of Kovin in Serbia. Serbian names used for the town, Mali Kovin ("little Kovin") and Gornji Kovin ("upper Kovin") were used in contrast with the name of original Kovin, which often was called Donji Kovin ("lower Kovin").
[edit] History
Ráckeve was founded in the 15th century by the Serbs who came from Kovin. They named their new settlement Mali Kovin ("little Kovin"). In the 16th century, Ráckeve was respectable mercantile town. Since 1541, it was under Ottoman rule. In 1543-6, the name of the duke of the town was Đurđe. In 1567, the town was populated by (mostly Calvinist) Hungarians and Serbs. Many Serbs later moved from Ráckeve and settled in Győr and Komárom.
[edit] Sights
Ráckeve is famous about the only Gothic style Serb Orthodox Church in Hungary from the 15th century.
[edit] References
- Dr. Dušan J. Popović, Srbi u Vojvodini, knjige 1-3, Novi Sad, 1990.
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