 The village lies at an altitude of 133 metres and covers an area of 30.96 km².It has a population of about 1,500 people.The majority of the Magyar population (99% aboriginal)- and living continuously in this village for more than 900 years, surviving the Osman occupation (lasting for 150 years) - was expelled to Hungary - mainly the Calvinists - on the basis of the brutal Kosice-Kassa Declaration of the Czechoslovak National-Socialist party's leader and president of CSR, E.Benes - between spring of 1945 - and the end of 1948.