Help finding towns
Hi all! I'm new here, thanks for having me. I'm doing some research of a Hungarian branch of my family (they emigrated to Uruguay in the 1920s). I have many towns of origin listed in documents, but can't find them anywhere. Can you help me?
These are the towns:
- Lissava, Romania
- Oszivacs, Baksa county
- Kolkan, Hungary
Their nationalities vary between Hungarian, Romanian and Yugoslavian.
Thank you!
Answers
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I need to express my amusement at Oszivacs "Old Sponge". :-)
It's actually Ószivácz, Bács-Bodrog county; the region is sometimes called Bácska, which is the probable origin of the nonexistent "Baksa" that you found. The place is now Stari Sivac, and it has joined with Ujszivácz (now Novi Sivac) to make Sivac, in Serbia. (Unlike szivacs "sponge", szivác is not a vocabulary word in Hungarian; I'm away from my books and can't look up its derivation.)
The closest I can find to "Lissava" is Lisava, a creek that joins the river Karas at Varadia, right on the border between Temes county and Krassó-Szörény county (now Varadia, Romania). The creek did not give its name to any settlements, however, so it seems more likely that "Lissava" is a misreading of something else.
"Kolkan" must also involve a misreading; the closest to those letters I can think of is Kölked, of which there are several, but they're in Baranya and Vas counties, i.e. nowhere near the Hungary/Serbia/Romania border region.
Are any of the documents where you found these placenames online somewhere?
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Hi! Thank you very much for all your kind help.
Yes, here are the records. They are from Brazil, so they may have tried to "translate" those names.
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I think this is Mathilde's brother Jozsef:https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9GBQ-9Z2W?view=index&action=view
Here is the birthplace:
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Christopher's find makes me wonder if "Lissava" is supposed to be Kossova, Krassó-Szörény, later Kossó, now Coşava, Romania.
The other one actually says Kolcan, but I still can't come up with anything for it.
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Hi guys! Just wanted to let you know that I found the famous Lissava!
It's a railway station (closed in 1980) close to Anina, so Christopher was spot on! (thanks again!).
I leave you some info in case you are interested:
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Jelenleg Románia területe, viszont 1913-ban Trianon előtti időben ez még Magyarország területéhez tartozott.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Kolc%C3%A1n,+Rom%C3%A1nia/@45.3685547,21.779426,13.25z/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x474fd9d4f5370509:0x74d1d9853ff296ff!8m2!3d45.3681942!4d21.8014937!16s%2Fg%2F121nrx38?authuser=0&entry=ttu
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