Smolník, Gelnica District
Location of Gelnica District in the Košice Region
Smolník 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]
Refererences
- ↑ 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
8: Košice Region in Slovakia
Municipalities of Gelnica District | ||
|---|---|---|
 | ||
Coordinates: 48°44′N 20°44′E / 48.733°N 20.733°E
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 11/7/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.