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Ožďany () is a village and municipality in the Rimavská Sobota District of the Banská Bystrica Region of southern Slovakia.

Key facts

Slovak place.name
Ožďany
Slovak place.other_name
Osgyán
Slovak place.settlement_type
Municipality
Slovak place.image_skyline
RK Kostol Ozdany.jpg
Slovak place.image_flag
Ozdany-rimavska sobota-flag.svg
Slovak place.subdivision_type1
Region
Slovak place.subdivision_type2
District
Slovak place.subdivision_name2
Rimavská Sobota District
Slovak place.pushpin_map
Slovakia Banská Bystrica Region#Slovakia
Slovak place.pushpin_relief
1
Slovak place.pushpin_map_caption
Location of Ožďany in the Banská Bystrica Region##Location of Ožďany in Slovakia
Slovak place.established_title
First mentioned
Slovak place.established_date
1332
Slovak place.elevation_m
213
Slovak place.postal_code_type
Postal code
Slovak place.postal_code
980 11
Slovak place.area_code
+421 47
Slovak place.registration_plate
RS

via Wikipedia infobox

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Encyclopedic overview

6 sections
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  • Geography
  • Population
  • Ethnicity
  • Religion
  • References
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Ožďany () is a village and municipality in the Rimavská Sobota District of the Banská Bystrica Region of southern Slovakia.

Local high school played an important role in the Slovak history, some important persons of Slovak literary and political life of the 19th century made their studies here, like Štefan Marko Daxner, Ján Botto and Ján Francisci-Rimavský.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ožďany” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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