Kolárovo
| Kolárovo | |
| Gúta | |
| Town | |
 A church in Kolárovo
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| Country | Slovakia |
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| Region | Nitra |
| District | Komárno |
| Rivers | Váh, Little Danube |
| Elevation | 111 m (364 ft) |
| Coordinates | 47°55′01″N 17°59′44″E / 47.91694°N 17.99556°ECoordinates: 47°55′01″N 17°59′44″E / 47.91694°N 17.99556°E |
| Area | 106.823 km2 (41 sq mi) |
| Population | 10,747 (31 December 2005) |
| Density | 101/km2 (262/sq mi) |
| First mentioned | 1268 |
| Mayor | Árpád Horváth |
| Timezone | CET (UTC+1) |
| - summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) |
| Postal code | 946 03 |
| Phone prefix | 421-35 |
| Car plate | KN |
   Location of Kolárovo within Slovakia
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| Website: http://www.kolarovo.sk | |
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Kolárovo (before 1948: Guta; Hungarian: Gúta or earlier Guta) is a town in the south of Slovakia near the town of Komárno. It is an agricultural center with 11,000 inhabitants.
The town of Kolárovo is located in the Podunajská nížina (Danubian Lowland) at the confluence of the Váh and Little Danube Rivers. The western part of the plane land is on Žitný ostrov, the medium part on boggy flats of the Little Danube, Váh, and Váh Danube Rivers, the eastern part with many old shoulders and inland embankments at the flat of the Váh and Nitra Rivers. The town comprises 6 neighborhoods: center, Částa (Császta), Kráľka (Királyrét), Veľký Ostrov (Nagysziget), Örtény and Pačérok (Pacsérok).
About 11,000 inhabitants live between the dams at the Little Danube, of whom 82.6% are of Hungarian ethnicity, 16% of Slovak ethnicity, and the rest 1.4% of other ethnicities.
Kolárovo belongs to the largest towns of the lower part of the Žitný ostrov.
The village was mentioned for the first time in 1268 and during its existence it has changed its name several times (Old Guta, Big Guta, Little Guta).
According to a local tradition, the Árpáds populated the surrounding abandoned villages by the Iazyges from the regions along the river Tisza. Folk customs and rustic buildings, etc. bear evidence of this. Other facts suggest that the area of Kolárovo was donated by King Ladislaus IV, the Cumanian. According to them, it was King Ladislaus I of Hungary, who delimited the area of the town to the extent of 56,000 acres (22,662 ha) by his bill. King Ladislaus IV donated the surrounding hamlets to the village. Since that day the town has been the property of the archbishop of Esztergom (Strigonium). The bill of 1268 bears evidence of this. However, these landlords never became favoured among the inhabitants of Guta who revolted from time to time against them and other lords. The inhabitants of the town also suffered a lot during the war. In 1311, Chellus, an armiger of Matthew III Csák, destroyed the villages of Guta, Nesvady a Zemné with his horde.
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