Margecany
Sign in to saveMargecany (, ) is a village and municipality in the Gelnica District in the Košice Region of eastern Slovakia. Total municipality population was, in 2011, 1964 inhabitants. Margecany is a very important railway junction situated on the main railway corridor (Košice–Bohumín Railway) connecting Košice with Žilina and Bratislava. Ružín reservoir regulates rivers Hornád and Hnilec. Technical attraction is the Bujanov tunnel.
Key facts
- Slovak place.name
- Margecany
- Slovak place.other_name
- Margitfalva
- Slovak place.settlement_type
- Municipality
- Slovak place.image_skyline
- Margecany11Slovakia2.JPG
- Slovak place.image_caption
- Church of Saint Margaret of Antioch
- Slovak place.image_flag
- Margecany-gelnica-flag.svg
- Slovak place.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Slovak place.subdivision_type2
- District
- Slovak place.subdivision_name2
- Gelnica District
- Slovak place.pushpin_map
- Slovakia Košice Region#Slovakia
- Slovak place.pushpin_relief
- 1
- Slovak place.pushpin_map_caption
- Location of Margecany in the Košice Region##Location of Margecany in Slovakia
- Slovak place.established_title
- First mentioned
- Slovak place.established_date
- 1235
- Slovak place.elevation_m
- 336
- Slovak place.postal_code_type
- Postal code
- Slovak place.postal_code
- 550 1
- Slovak place.area_code
- +421 53
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Slovakia
- Official name
- Margecany
- Country
- Slovakia
- Located in
- Gelnica District
- Population
- 1856
- Area
- 17.614357
- Elevation
- 336
- Official website
- www.margecany.sk
- Image
- Margecany11Slovakia2.JPG
- Dialing code
- 053
- Licence plate code
- GL
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- native label
- Margecany
- Commons category
- Margecany
- postal code
- 055 01
- time of earliest written record
- 1235-00-00
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- inception
- 1235-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Geography
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- Ethnicity
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Margecany (, ) is a village and municipality in the Gelnica District in the Košice Region of eastern Slovakia. Total municipality population was, in 2011, 1964 inhabitants. Margecany is a very important railway junction situated on the main railway corridor (Košice–Bohumín Railway) connecting Košice with Žilina and Bratislava. Ružín reservoir regulates rivers Hornád and Hnilec. Technical attraction is the Bujanov tunnel.
== Geography ==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Margecany” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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