Smižany ( hu, Szepessümeg, german: Schmögen) is a large
village
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and
municipality
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in the
Spišská Nová Ves District
Spišská Nová Ves District ( sk, okres Spišská Nová Ves) is a district in the Košice Region of eastern Slovakia.
The district in its present borders was established in 1996. Administrative, economic and cultural center is its seat Spišská ...
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 ...
of central-eastern
Slovakia
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.
History
Excavations in Čingov, just south of the village, have found traces of
Stone Age settlement. The village was settled by
German
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settlers in 1242. There is a
Romanesque church of the 13th century.
Geography
The
village
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lies at an
altitude
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of 485 metres and covers an
area
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of 45.704 km².
In 2011 had a
population
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of 8698 inhabitants and is the largest municipality without a town status in Slovakia.
Twin towns — sister cities
Smižany is
twinned
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with:
*
Borsodnádasd
Borsodnádasd is a small industrial town in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county, Northern Hungary; 80 kilometers from the county capital Miskolc, and from the city of Ózd
Ózd () is a town in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county, Northern Hungary, ...
, Hungary
*
Kamienica, Poland
*
Komorniki, Poland
References
External links
Municipal website
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