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Å tefan Marko Daxner
Å tefan Marko Daxner, (22 December 1822, Tiszolcz (, ), Gömör-Kis-Hont, Kingdom of Hungary, Austrian Empire 11 April 1891, Tiszolc, Kingdom of Hungary) was an ethnic Slovak lower nobleman, politician, lawyer, and poet in the Kingdom of Hungary. He was a member of what became known as the ĽudovÃt Å túr generation. His family () is an old lower noble family, which emigrated from Switzerland to the Kingdom of Hungary in the 14th century. Biography Daxner studied at the Lutheran Lyceum (preparatory high school plus freshmen college) of Pressburg (Pozsony, today's Bratislava) and at the College of PreÅ¡ov (Eperjes). Between 1846 and 1872 he was a lawyer in Tisovec (Tiszolc), an official of several counties and an associate judge of the Commercial Court of Debrecen. In 1847, just before the 1848-1849 Revolution, Daxner outlined a program unifying the requests for national (Slovak), cultural, political and social liberties. He was sentenced to death by Hungarian authori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tisovec
Tisovec (, or ''Theissholcz'', Latin: ''Taxovia'') is a town in central Slovakia. Its population was around 3,648 in the latest census held in 2021. Location and landscape Tisovec is situated in the valley of the river Rimava, at the foot of the Muránska planina plateau. The landscape there gives the impression of a small town in the mountains. Some other towns close to it are Brezno, Hnúšťa and Revúca. History The first settlement in the area dates all the way to the Bronze Age, and was located in Hradová in Tisovec. The first written evidence of the town comes from the year 1334 during the reign of King Charles I of Hungary as ''Tizolc''. The name "Tisovec" comes from the yew tree (in Hungarian "tiszafa", in Slovak "tis"), which can be found in the hills around the town. Tisovec received its charter as a town at the end of the 15th century. The development of the town was halted by raids of the Ottoman Turks in the 16th and 17th centuries. The town's renaissanc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |