Lisková () is a village in the

Ružomberok District Ružomberok District (''okres Ružomberok'') is a district in the Žilina Region of central Slovakia. Until 1918, the district was part of the county of Kingdom of Hungary of Liptov. Municipalities *Bešeňová Bešeňová () is a village an ...

of north-central Slovakia. It lies at an

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of 484 m and has an

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of 15.95 km². It had a

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of 2,077 in 2011.

History

In historical records the

village A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...

was first mentioned in 1252. Of interest is Lisková Cave, a 1,900 m Guttenstein limestone formation from the middle Triassic. A cultic statuette of a horned bull was found in the cave. Other finds include the remains of a copper-age secondary burial (

Lengyel culture __NOTOC__ The Lengyel culture is an archaeological culture of the European Neolithic, centered on the Middle Danube in Central Europe. It flourished from 5000 to 4000 BC, ending with phase IV, e.g., in Bohemia represented by the ' Jordanow/Jord ...

), stone tools, and a mammoth tooth. The finds included the forehead of a human skull, which was destroyed in 1956. The remains were the first evidence of Pleistocene settlement in the territory of present-day Slovakia.

Notable people

Notable people that were born or lived in Lisková include: * Vavro Šrobár (1867–1950), doctor and politicianKirschbaum, Stanislav J. 1996. ''A History of Slovakia: The Struggle for Survival.'' New York: St. Martin's Griffin, p. 148.

References

External links

* *https://web.archive.org/web/20071217080336/http://www.statistics.sk/mosmis/eng/run.html *http://www.liskova.sk Villages and municipalities in Ružomberok District Archaeological sites in Slovakia {{Žilina-geo-stub