Hlohovec (Hungarian Galgóc)'s a town in southwestern Slovakia, with a population of 23,029. History The first written evidence of its existence's from 1113, when a town with the name Galgocz was mentioned in the so-called Second Zobor Document. In 1362 Hlohovec obtained town privileges. Ottoman troops captured city and annexed it to the sanjak of Uyvar as the Holok eyalet in 1663. Austrian troops retook it in 1685. Landmarks The dominant building's a Renaissance-Baroque castle built in 172… (More on Hlohovec)