Horpács is a village in Nógrád county, Hungary.

Location

Horpács is located 67 km north of Budapest. Leave E77 European main road at Borsosberény as the closest approximation. The village is situated in a valley between gently sloping hills. It is about 15 km southwest of Balassagyarmat.

History

The word Horpács derives from "horpad", that means "dent" in the Hungarian language, alluding to the location of village. The settlement was the property of the Szobi family in 1473, but was swapped between the Szobi and Almássy families in 1480. Big landowners later in Horpács were Stephen Paska, Samuel Veres, Paul Balogh, Ferenc Bodonyi, Joseph Gáspár, Ferenc Gelle, Joseph Somoskeöy, Ignatz Porubszky, Joseph Kovács, Denes Géczy, Dedinszky family. The Roman Catholic Church was built between 1740 and 1744. The fact that five notable figures of Hungarian national culture came in close contact with the village in the second half of the 19th century and in the beginning of the 20th century made the settlement one of the sacred places of the Hungarian history of literature.

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