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Aka is a village in Komárom-Esztergom county in Hungary near
to Town of Kisbér (15 km south) at
the North-Eastern edge of the Bakony Mountains. The village has
got 271 inhabitants (2001 census), all of them are Hungarian.
Neighbouring settlements are Ácsteszér,
Súr, Nagyveleg and Bakonysárkány villages, Kisbér and Mór towns.
The first mention of the settlement is from 1437. At the time of
the Turkish wars the settlement was devastated in 1543. Aka was
resettled with Germans and Slovaks between 1722-1762 by the
Batthyány Family. In 1910 Aka was a village in the Zirc district
of Veszprém County. Number of its inhabitants in 1910: 843; 542
(64,3%) German, 296 (35,1%) Hungarian and 5 (0,6%) other by
mother tongue, 775 (91,9%) Roman Catholic, 39 (4,6%) Lutheran, 23
(2,7%) Calvinist by religion. After the WWII most of the Germans
were deported to Germany. In 1950 the village annexed to Komárom
county.
Description of the coat of arms: The Coat of Arms of the village is a
standing triangular red shield with a blue curved wedge. In the
blue field on the center of three green hills there is gold God's
Eye in a gold triangle rising from a gold crown. In the left red
field teheris a gold oak leaf, in the right red field there is
three gold linden tree leaves. Below the shield on a gold stripe
there is the name of the village: 'AKA'. The flag is white with
red and gold stripes on the flying edge, on the white field there
is the Coat of Arms of the village. Ratio 1:2.
Sources: Photo of the coat of arms and description from the
Mayor's Office. Historical data from <www.akakozseg.hu> (only in
Hungarian).
István Molnár, 5 March 2003
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