Slanica
Slanica (Hungarian Szlanica ) is a now defunct place in Slovakia near the city of Námestovo . It was first mentioned as Zlavycha in 1564 . The population lived from agriculture, animal husbandry and the cultivation and processing of linen.
Until 1918 it belonged to the Kingdom of Hungary in Arwa County and then came to the newly formed Czechoslovakia . After the break-up of Czechoslovakia, it became part of Slovakia in 1939 . In 1940 805 inhabitants were registered and the total area of the village was around 12 km². In 1941 the construction of the Arwa reservoir began. In 1953 the village was incorporated into the city of Námestovo and flooded. During the flooding, the villages of Ústie , Oravské Hámre , Osada , Lavkovo and two thirds of the city of Námestovo with the historical center were flooded.
Today there is only one island ( Slanický ostrov ), actually a hill, in the middle of the reservoir. There is a classicist, originally Baroque church from 1766, the exhibition of the Orava Gallery ( Oravská galéria ) and a monument to Anton Bernolák.
sons and daughters of the town
- Anton Bernolák (1762–1813), Slovak priest and linguist, codifier of the first Slovak language standard .
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Coordinates: 49 ° 24 ' N , 19 ° 31' E