Smolník, Gelnica District

Smolník
Smolník; German: Schmöllnitz; Hungarian: Szomolnok
	Town
Country	Slovakia
Region	Košice
District	Gelnica
Area
• Total	68,975 km2 (26,631 sq mi)
Population (Dec. 31, 2017)
• Total	1,027
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Website	www.smolnik.sk

Smolník (German: Schmöllnitz, Hungarian: Szomolnok) is a village and municipality in the Gelnica District in the Košice Region of eastern Slovakia.

Etymology

The village got its name after the stream Smolník. Slovak: smola – pitch, smolník – a settlement of people who collected pitch or lived in a forest where the pitch was collected.[1] It belonged to a German language island. The German population was expelled in 1945.

References

Štefánik, Martin; Lukačka, Ján, eds. (2010). Lexikón stredovekých miest na Slovensku [Lexicon of Medieval Towns in Slovakia] (PDF) (in Slovak). Bratislava: Historický ústav SAV. pp. 436, 445. ISBN 978-80-89396-11-5.

External links

Official page of Smolník (in Slovak)
http://en.e-obce.sk/obec/smolnik/smolnik.html

8: Košice Region in Slovakia

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[autogenerated1-1] Štefánik, Martin; Lukačka, Ján, eds. (2010). Lexikón stredovekých miest na Slovensku [Lexicon of Medieval Towns in Slovakia] (PDF) (in Slovak). Bratislava: Historický ústav SAV. pp. 436, 445. ISBN 978-80-89396-11-5.