Báb is a village and municipality

Municipality

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 in the Nitra District

Nitra District

Nitra District is a district inthe Nitra Region of western Slovakia. It is the most populated of Slovakia's 79 districts. Until 1918, most of the present-day district belonged to the Nitra county, apart from Vráble in the east which was part of the county of Tekov.- Municipalities...

 in western central Slovakia

Slovakia

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, in the Nitra Region

Nitra Region

The Nitra Region is one of the administrative regions of Slovakia.-Geography:This region with a long history is situated in the southwest of Slovakia, mostly in the eastern part of the Danubian Lowland. It is divided into two sub-units: the Danubian Flat in the south-west, with eastern part of the...

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History

The village was created in 1955 from the merger of two formerly independent villages, Malý Báb and Velký Báb. Veľký Báb was first mentioned in historical records

History

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 in 1156 and Malý Báb in 1365.

Geography

The village

Village

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 lies at an altitude

Altitude

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 of 150 metres and covers an area

Area

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 of 20.091 km². It has a population

Population

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 of about 965 people. It is located approximately 16 km west of Nitra

Nitra

Nitra is a city in western Slovakia, situated at the foot of Zobor Mountain in the valley of the river Nitra. With a population of about 83,572, it is the fifth largest city in Slovakia. Nitra is also one of the oldest cities in Slovakia and the country's earliest political and cultural center...

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Facilities

The village has a public library

Library

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, a gym

Gym

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, and a football pitch

Association football pitch

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External links

• http://www.statistics.sk/mosmis/eng/run.html