Orbottyan

Orbottyan is a city in Pest County, Hungary. Bottyan is an old Hungarian given call for boys, which means mace. Prefix Orliterally approach shield in Hungarian and refers back to the close by hill Orhegy, which was a fort within the center a long time. Orbottyan changed into created in 1970 with the unification of small villages, named Orszentmiklos and Vacbottyan. Orszentmiklos first noted in 1344 as villa Sancti Nicolai and in 1390 as Zenth Myklos. Vacbottyan first cited in 1332 as Botuna and in 1376 as Bathyan.

According to the Hungarian Royal Treasury, the location turned into inhabited via ethnic Hungarians in 1495. The place have become devastated due to the Ottoman wars in the 17th century, while Christians liberated the location inside the 1680s they observed only a few own family in Orszentmiklos, Vacbottyan turned into uninhabited. Orszentmiklos resettled via Calvinist and Roman Catholic Hungarians, even as Vácbottyan become rebuilt by using Lutheran Slovaks and Roman Catholic Hungarians within the 18th century. Later Slovaks followed Hungarian language and that they assimilated into the Hungarian majority.