The oldest mentions of the city
The oldest written record of Tlmač is recorded in the charter of the St. Benedict's abbey from 1075, where the Hungarian ruler Gejza lists the property donated to the Benedictine monastery. Among them is "... villa piscatorum super ripam Gran, nomine Talmach ..." which means "... a fishing village over the river Hron, named Tlmače ...". It follows from the above that this settlement of fishermen and ferrymen was already here before the abbey was founded. Documents from the 13th century state the name of the village "Tholomach". In the Proceedings of Fr. Pesty's origin of the name of the village is said to have originated from the following incident: someone asked the shepherd what the settlement near Hron was called. He replied, "I don't know what you're saying." - "Too bad there's no interpreter here - Tolmács." Linguists believe that the name of the village of Tlmače may have originated from the word interpreter, because in the Middle Ages it was customary to give settlements names according to the occupation of their inhabitants (transport, providing information to passengers, interpretation).
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