In the 1740s, the population of the village continued to grow after new groups arrived: Catholics from the upper Tisza and Lutheran Slovaks from Hont and Nógrád counties.
Hont County (archaically Honth), a historic administrative county of the Kingdom of Hungary
The name of the county and the settlement derived from Hunt’s name, what means captain in old German language.
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Hont is a village in Nógrád County in Hungary.
In historical records the village was first mentioned in 1243 (Eztergur, Vzturgar), when it belonged to Hont Castle.
In 1876, Pukanec was demoted from the royal free mining town to a municipality belonging to the Hont county.
D'Hont's book, of which excerpts were printed in the German political magazine Der Spiegel in April 2007, accused members of Team Telekom of systematic doping with EPO in the mid-1990s.
In his book, of which excerpts where printed in the German political magazine Der Spiegel in April 2007, D'Hont accused members of Team Telekom of systematic and organized doping with EPO in the mid-1990s.