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.
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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