Karcsa
Encyclopedia
Karcsa is a village in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén
county, Hungary
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. The other wrestling scene can be found at the Bény (Bíňa
) church of the same age (Árpád age). The rotunda has 2 other structural relatives of this type in the Carpathian Basin: Gerény and Kiszombor
. They are probably origin and relation with the art of the Caucasus Mountains
.
Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén
Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén is the name of an administrative county in north-eastern Hungary , on the border with Slovakia. It shares borders with the Hungarian counties Nógrád, Heves, Hajdú-Bihar and Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg. The capital of Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county is Miskolc...
county, Hungary
Hungary
Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...
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Sightseeing for visitors
In the village we can see an old architectural heritage from the romanesque art: the church. It consists of two parts. Older is the rotunda built with 6 sections. Younger is, - although of Árpád age - the parochial romanesque church of the village. Once it had 3 naves. At the western entrance there are column-capitals with old sculptures. One is a wrestling scene well known in all EurasiaEurasia
Eurasia is a continent or supercontinent comprising the traditional continents of Europe and Asia ; covering about 52,990,000 km2 or about 10.6% of the Earth's surface located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres...
. The other wrestling scene can be found at the Bény (Bíňa
Bína
Bíňa is a municipality and village in the Nové Zámky District in the Nitra Region of south-west Slovakia.-History:In historical records the village was first mentioned in 1135 written as Byn. Earlier the Romans built a fortress here and in 173 emperor Marcus Aurelius wrote his famous diary in this...
) church of the same age (Árpád age). The rotunda has 2 other structural relatives of this type in the Carpathian Basin: Gerény and Kiszombor
Kiszombor
Kiszombor is a village in Csongrád county, in the Southern Great Plain region of southern Hungary.-Geography:It covers an area of and has a population of 4210 people .It is an agricultural village, near the river Maros....
. They are probably origin and relation with the art of the Caucasus Mountains
Caucasus Mountains
The Caucasus Mountains is a mountain system in Eurasia between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea in the Caucasus region .The Caucasus Mountains includes:* the Greater Caucasus Mountain Range and* the Lesser Caucasus Mountains....
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Outer references
- Gerevich T. (1938): Magyarország románkori emlékei. (Die romanische Denkmäler Ungarns.) Egyetemi nyomda. Budapest
- Gerő, L. (1984): Magyar műemléki ABC. (Hungarian Architectural Heritage ABC.) Budapest
- Gervers-Molnár, V. (1972): A középkori Magyarország rotundái. (Rotunda in the Medieval Hungary). Akadémiai, Budapest
- Henszlmann, I. (1876): Magyarország ó-keresztyén, román és átmeneti stylü mű-emlékeinek rövid ismertetése, (Old-Christian, Romanesque and Transitional Style Architecture in Hungary). Királyi Magyar Egyetemi Nyomda, Budapest
- Genthon I. (1959): Magyarország műemlékei. (Architectural Heritage of Hungray). Budapest
- Szilágyi A. (2008): A Kárpát-medence Árpád-kori rotundái és centrális templomai. (The Rotunda and Central Building Churches in the Carpathian Basin.) Semmelweis Kiadó, Budapest
- Szőnyi O. (É.n.): Régi magyar templomok. Alte Ungarische Kirchen. Anciennes églises Hongroises. Hungarian Churches of Yore. A Műemlékek Országos Bizottsága. Mirályi Magyar Egyetemi Nyomda, Budapest.
- Jósvainé Dankó K. (é.n.): Karcsa. Református templom. (Karcsa. Reformed Churches.) Tájak, korok múzeumok kiskönyvtára, 572. TKM Egyesület, Budapest