summer 1914 · 1914–1918 The mill burns, the war startsPíla zhorela, vojna začala

In the summer of 1914 the sawmill burned to the ground. Within weeks Austria-Hungary was at war and the men of the town were in uniform. Turany came out of the war in a new country — Czechoslovakia, declared in October 1918 — and lost something in the change: the market-town status it had held since 1397 quietly lapsed, and for most of a century it would be an ordinary village on paper.V lete 1914 píla do tla zhorela. O pár týždňov bolo Rakúsko-Uhorsko vo vojne a muži z mestečka v uniformách. Z vojny vyšli Turany v novom štáte — v Československu, vyhlásenom v októbri 1918 — a čosi pri tej zmene stratili: postavenie mestečka, ktoré držali od roku 1397, ticho zaniklo a takmer celé storočie boli na papieri obyčajnou obcou.