Sečovce (; hu, Gálszécs; uk, Сечівці) is a

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in the

Trebišov District Trebišov District ( sk, okres Trebišov, ; hu, Tőketerebesi járás) is a district in the Košice Region of eastern Slovakia. Until 1918, the district was mostly part of the Hungarian county of Zemplén, apart from a small area in the south ...

in the

Košice Region The Košice Region ( sk, Košický kraj, , hu, Kassai kerület; uk, Кошицький край) is one of the eight Slovak administrative regions. The region was first established in 1923 and its present borders were established in 1996. It c ...

of south-eastern

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History

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

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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

shoemaker Shoemaking is the process of making footwear. Originally, shoes were made one at a time by hand, often by groups of shoemakers, or cobblers (also known as '' cordwainers''). In the 18th century, dozens or even hundreds of masters, journeymen ...

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rs, potters and

furrier Fur clothing is clothing made from the preserved skins of mammals. Fur is one of the oldest forms of clothing, and is thought to have been widely used by people for at least 120,000 years. The term 'fur' is often used to refer to a specific i ...

s. 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 ( hu, Tőketerebes; german: Trebischau; russian: Требишев) 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 machi ...

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

census A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating information about the members of a given population. This term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common censuses in ...

, 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%

Lutheran Lutheranism is one of the largest branches of Protestantism, identifying primarily with the theology of Martin Luther, the 16th-century German monk and Protestant Reformers, reformer whose efforts to reform the theology and practice of the Cathol ...

. 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 pharmacy, and outpatient health facilities of a general practitioner and pediatrician. There is a public

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, a cultural house and a movie theater. 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 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 markets. Because ...

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 hedge ...

. A few

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reside in and around Sečovce - Palma Agro (

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s), Silometal (metal silos and containers), Sonap (

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), Valter ( socks), 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 Emery Roth ( hu, Róth Imre, July 17, 1871 – August 20, 1948) was an American architect of Hungarian-Jewish descent who designed many of the definitive New York City hotels and apartment buildings of the 1920s and 1930s, incorporating Beaux ...

(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 Gejza Šimanský (born 29 August 1924 in Sečovce, died 19 June 2007) was a former Slovak footballer who played for ŠK Slovan Bratislava and FC Tatran Prešov during the 1940s and 1950s. Club career Šimanský made 212 appearances and score ...

(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 *

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

(1967), actress and director *

Adolf Schwarz Adolf Schwarz (31 October 1836, Gálszécs, Hungary, now Sečovce, Slovakia – 25 October 1910, Vienna) was an Austro-Hungarian chess master. He took 10th in the Vienna 1873 chess tournament (Wilhelm Steinitz and Joseph Henry Blackburne won). ...

(1836), Hungarian-Jewish chess player

References

External links

Municipal website

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