Bars County
Bars (Latin: comitatus Barsiensis, Hungarian: Bars, Slovak: Tekov, German: Barsch) is the name of a historic administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory is presently in central and southern Slovakia. Today in Slovakia, Tekov is the informal designation of the corresponding territory.
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That for an hermitage;
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And in my soul am free,
Angels alone, that soar above,
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