Košúty, Martin

Košúty
Košúty
Borough
	Košúty Location of Košúty in Slovakia
	Coordinates: 49°5′24″N 18°56′3″E
Country	Slovakia
Region	Žilina
District	Martin District
Municipality	Martin
First mentioned	1397
	Source[1]

Košúty (Hungarian: Kossuth) is a borough of Martin, Slovakia. Košúty was initially a separate village, it has been merged in 1919 with a neighboring village Priekopa and it became a borough of Martin in 1949.

The first written mention of Košúty was in 1397 as a village named Cosuthfalua, when belonged to the Kingdom of Hungary. The name is derived from a personal name of Slavic origin Košút (the Hungarian transcription Kossuth, see also etymology). This is supported also by another record stating that the village was owned by Andrew, son of Kosuth and by its later name Udwarch a. n. Kosswthfalwa – "Court or Košut's village" (1489).[2]

A history of the village is closely tied to the House of Kossuth.

References

"Mestská a obecná štatistika SR". Statistics.sk. Archived from the original on June 21, 2009. Retrieved 2010-01-31.
Krajčovič, Rudolf (2010). "Z lexiky stredovekej slovenčiny s výkladmi názvov obcí a miest (24)" (PDF). Kultúra slova (in Slovak). Martin: Vydavateľstvo Matice slovenskej (6): 343.

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[1] "Mestská a obecná štatistika SR". Statistics.sk. Archived from the original on June 21, 2009. Retrieved 2010-01-31.

[2] Krajčovič, Rudolf (2010). "Z lexiky stredovekej slovenčiny s výkladmi názvov obcí a miest (24)" (PDF). Kultúra slova (in Slovak). Martin: Vydavateľstvo Matice slovenskej (6): 343.