Smolník (German: Schmöllnitz, Hungarian: Szomolnok) is a village and municipality in the Gelnica District in the Košice Region of eastern Slovakia.
Smolník
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Smolník in 1998 | |
Country | Slovakia |
Region | Košice |
District | Gelnica |
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• Total | 68.97[1] km2 (26.63[1] sq mi) |
Elevation | 567[2] m (1,860[2] ft) |
Population (2021) | |
• Total | 968[3] |
Time zone | CET (UTC+1) |
• Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) |
Area code(s) | +421 53[2] |
Website | www.smolnik.sk |
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.[4] It belonged to a German language island. The German population was expelled in 1945.
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