Sečovce (; ; ) is a

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in the

Trebišov District Trebišov District (, ; ) is a Districts of Slovakia, district in the Košice Region of eastern Slovakia. Until 1918, the district was mostly part of the Administrative divisions of the Kingdom of Hungary, Hungarian county of Zemplén County, Ze ...

in the

Košice Region The Košice Region (, ; ; ) is one of the eight Slovak administrative regions. The region was first established in 1923 and its present borders were established in 1996. It consists of 11 districts ( okresy) and 440 municipalities, 17 of which ...

of south-eastern

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History

The town was first mentioned in year 1255 on the list of king Béla IV of

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. In 1494, a

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church was built in the

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style. Since the 15th century, there was gradual development of trade, including

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s with

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rs,

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s and furriers. The first post-office was opened in 1783, telegraph office in 1868, telephone office in 1890, train station in 1904, and museum in 1954, which was moved to

Trebišov Trebišov (; ; ) is a small industrial town in the easternmost part of Slovakia, with a population of around 25,000. The town is an administrative, economic and cultural center with machine (Vagónka) and building materials industries. History Th ...

in 1981.

Geography

The

lies at an

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of , which rises to on Albínovská hora. It covers an

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of and has a

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of about 8,000.

Demographics

According to the 2001

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, it had 7,819 inhabitants - 95.89% of whom were Slovak, 2.17% Roma, 0.47%

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, and 0.22% Hungarian. The religious makeup was 47.05%

, 25.71%

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, 18.11% with no religious affiliation, and 1.83%

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. Prior to 1945, the town had a large Jewish population, most of which was deported by the Nazis. Also, prior to 1945, the town consisted primarily of ethnic Hungarians, with a small Slovak minority, but the Hungarians were forceably deported right after the war in order to ethnically cleanse the area and to make room for Slovaks from the north. Those who remained have assimilated and now consider themselves for the most part to be Slovak.

Economy and facilities

The town has a

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, and outpatient health facilities of a general practitioner and

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. There is a public

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, a cultural house and a

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. It also has a

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, a

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, a repair garage, and a number of general and food stores. It also has a Slovak commercial

bank A bank is a financial institution that accepts Deposit account, deposits from the public and creates a demand deposit while simultaneously making loans. Lending activities can be directly performed by the bank or indirectly through capital m ...

and

insurance company Insurance is a means of protection from financial loss in which, in exchange for a fee, a party agrees to compensate another party in the event of a certain loss, damage, or injury. It is a form of risk management, primarily used to protect ...

. A few

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reside in and around Sečovce - Palma Agro (

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s), Silometal (metal

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s and containers), Sonap (

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), Valter (

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s), Lesy SR (

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), and Simkovic-Protektor s.r.o./SPR Retreading Solutions (tire retreads)

Sport

The town has a

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, a

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, fitness and a sport hall.

Famous people

* Štefan Sečovský (16th century), evangelical preacher, writer, composer, pedagogue His original Hungarian name was Galszecsi Istvan. * Štefan Gáboréczy (16th century), evangelical writer * Andrej Fáy (1786 – 1864), lawyer, businessman, politician, writer, playwright * Emery Roth (1871 – 1948), architect * Herman Jarkovský (1898 – ?), photographer, businessman, musician (violin and cello), music teacher * Július Muľarský (1910), politician ( KSČ), warrior against fascism * Ján Murín (1913 – 1990), theologian, Byzantine Catholic priest, religious activist, warrior against communism, victim of communism * Ján Bavorský (1918), lawyer, university professor * Štefan Korčmároš (1919 – 1985), historian, chronicler, writer, pedagogue, cultural activist * Vojtech Jenčík (1920 – 1976), theologian, priest, poet, warrior against communism, victim of communism * Jozef Švagrovský (1921 – 1985), paleontologist, university professor * Andrej Mikloš (1924 – 2002), economist, cultural activist * Gejza Šimanský (1924 – 2007), football player * Mikuláš Kasarda (1925-2013), poet, pedagogue * Dionýz Čollak (1926 – 2004), veterinary surgeon, university professor * Ingrid Lukáčová (1969), poet * Michal Besterci (1937), metallurgy engineer, university professor * Stano Bubán (1961), painter, associate professor, Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava *

Ingrid Timková Ingrid Timková (born 17 January 1967) is a Slovakia, Slovak actress. She is most notable for appearing in the first Czech Republic, Czech-Slovakia, Slovak film produced in 1993 after the dissolution of Czechoslovakia, ''Anjel Milosrdenstva'' (), ...

(1967), actress and director * Adolf Schwarz (1836), Hungarian-Jewish chess player

References

External links

Municipal website

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