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Kremnica
Sign in to saveKremnica (; , ) is a town in central Slovakia. It has around 5,300 inhabitants. The well-preserved medieval town built above important gold mines is the site of the oldest still-working mint in the world.
Key facts
- Slovak place.name
- Kremnica
- Slovak place.other_name
- Körmöcbánya
- Slovak place.settlement_type
- Municipality
- Slovak place.image_skyline
- File:Kremnica v zime.jpg
- Slovak place.image_caption
- Winter in Kremnica
- Slovak place.image_flag
- Kremnica-ziar nad hronom-flag.svg
- Slovak place.image_shield
- Coa Slovakia Town Körmöcbánya.svg
- Slovak place.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Slovak place.subdivision_type2
- District
- Slovak place.subdivision_name2
- Žiar nad Hronom District
- Slovak place.pushpin_map
- Slovakia Banská Bystrica Region#Slovakia
- Slovak place.pushpin_relief
- 1
- Slovak place.pushpin_map_caption
- Location of Kremnica in the Banská Bystrica Region##Location of Kremnica in Slovakia
- Slovak place.leader_title
- Mayor
- Slovak place.leader_name
- Martin Novodomec
- Slovak place.leader_party
- KDH
- Slovak place.established_title
- First mentioned
- Slovak place.established_date
- 1328
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Mesto Kremnica
Oficiálne webové sídlo mesta Kremnica. Všetky dôležité informácie na jednom mieste. Novinky a aktuality zo samosprávy. Kremnica / mesto príbehov.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Slovakia
- Official name
- Kremnica
- Country
- Slovakia
- Located in
- Žiar nad Hronom District
- Population
- 4586
- Area
- 43.134034
- Elevation
- 550
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Official website
- www.kremnica.sk
- Image
- Kremnica v zime.jpg
- Dialing code
- 045
- Licence plate code
- ZH
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- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- twinned administrative body
- Kutná Hora
- Commons category
- Kremnica
- postal code
- 967 01
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Kremnica
- topic's main category
- Category:Kremnica
- product or material produced
- gold
- time of earliest written record
- 1328-00-00
- phone number
- +421-45-678-27-14
- inception
- 1328-00-00
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- native label
- Kremnica
- street address
- Mestský úrad Štefánikovo námestie 1/1
- P8168
- Mari Lampinen
Sources (8)
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Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- Name
- History
- Geography
- Main sights
- Demographics
- Ethnicity
- Religion
- Famous people
- Gallery
- Twin towns — sister cities
- References
- External links
Kremnica (; , ) is a town in central Slovakia. It has around 5,300 inhabitants. The well-preserved medieval town built above important gold mines is the site of the oldest still-working mint in the world.
==Name== The name is derived from Slovak kremeň, kremenina (quartz) with a feminine suffix -ica, functioning to create local names.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kremnica” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
Gallery (13)
On the map
3 mapped locations