Smolník
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Town | |
Smolník in 1998 | |
Country | Slovakia |
Region | Košice |
District | Gelnica |
Area | |
• 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 | +421 53 [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.
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. [5] It belonged to a German language island. The German population was expelled in 1945.
48°44′N 20°44′E / 48.733°N 20.733°E