Editing Levice (section)

==History==
[[File:Hrad Levice (Léva vára).jpg|200px|thumb|left|Levice Castle]]
Levice is first mentioned as Leua, one of the villages belonging to the parish of [[Martin of Tours|St. Martin]]'s Church in Bratka ({{langx|hu|Baratka}}) in 1156. It was part of the [[Comitatus (Kingdom of Hungary)|comitatus]] [[Tekov]] (''Bars'').

First attacked by the [[Ottoman Empire|Turks]] in 1544, the town was set on fire while the castle was left unharmed.  Between 1581 and 1589, the settlement was the seat of the [[Captaincies of the Kingdom of Hungary#Captaincy of Lower Hungary|Captaincy of Lower Hungary]]. The town was captured by the Turks in 1663 but recaptured only a year later by the [[Imperial Army (Holy Roman Empire)|Imperial Army]] led by General [[Jean-Louis Raduit de Souches|de Souches]] in the [[Battle of Levice]], which took place beneath the town's castle. 
[[File:Léva-1672.jpg|thumb|left|Austrian map, 1672]]
During the anti-[[Habsburg]] revolution of 1709, the fort was blown up by [[kuruc]]es.
After the break-up of [[Austria-Hungary]], the town became part of [[Czechoslovakia]] according to demarcation lines drawn by Entente forces in late 1918, with Czechoslovak troops reaching the city in January 1919 and Hungary giving up claim over it in 1920 by signing the Trianon treaty.<ref>{{cite book |last=Tolnai |first=Csaba |author-link= |date=2010 |title=Levice: Monografia mesta  |url= |location= |publisher=Harmony |page=89 |isbn=978-80-89151-27-1}}</ref> As part of the breakup of Czechoslovakia under the [[Munich Agreement]] in World War II, the town again belonged to [[Hungary]] from 1938 to 1945. At the end of the [[Second World War]] it was returned to the restored Czechoslovakia. In 1993 it became part of present-day [[Slovakia]].

It was the hometown of Hungarian-American [[Eugene Fodor (writer)|Eugene Fodor]] (1905–1991), the founder of [[Fodor's]] travel book company.