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image by István Molnár, 28 November 2000
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Tét is a large village in Győr-Moson-Sopron County in
Hungary between the Town of Pápa (21
km north) and City of Győr (24 km
south) in the Little Hungarian Plains. The settlement has got
4.252 inhabitants (1990 census), near all of Hungarians. One of
the Official Ethnic Minorities of Hungary has got ethnic council
in the village. The Gipsy. Neighbouring settlements are:
Rábaszentmihály, Kisbabot, Rábaszentmiklós, Mórichida,
Gyömöre, Felpéc, Győrszemere villages and Győr city. In 1910
Tét was a village in the Sokoróalja district of Győr County.
Number of inhabitants in 1910: 4.111; 4.103 (99,8%) Hungarian and
8 (0,2%) others by mother tongue, 1.935 (47,1%) Lutheran, 1.890
(46,0%) Roman Catholic, 432 (10,5%) Jew and 52 (1,3%) other by
religion. 1920-1946 in Győr-Moson-Pozsony County, 1946-1949 in
Győr-Moson County and 1950-now in Győr-Sopron (from 1990
Győr-Moson-Sopron) County. Tét became a town (Város) in 2001.
The flag, the coat or arms and the seal were adopted on 10th May
1997. Ratio of the flag: 2:3.
István Molnár, 28 November 2000 and 4 July 2001
image by István Molnár, 28 November 2000
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image by István Molnár, 28 November 2000
Description about the coat or arms:
Standing shield divided into four fields. In the left and top
field there are a silver ploughshare and coulter relate to the
old seal of Tét village from 1697. In the second field there is
a gold draw-well with a silver pail relates to the old seal of
Szentkút (Holy Well) village (now part of Tét with a beautiful
Baroque church) from 1779. The gold crucifix and the black eagle
in the third, blue field was the coat of arms of the Kisfaludy
Family, relate to the famous celebrity of the settlement. The
silver arm with silver sabre and gold star in the blue field was
the coat of arms of the Poky Family, which family was the
landlord of Tét. The silver wavy stripe relates to the Csángota
Brook.
István Molnár, 28 November 2000