Turecká
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| State : | Slovakia | ||
| Kraj : | Banskobystrický kraj | ||
| Okres : | Banská Bystrica | ||
| Region : | Horehrony | ||
| Area : | 10.163 km² | ||
| Residents : | 147 (Dec 31, 2019) | ||
| Population density : | 14 inhabitants per km² | ||
| Height : | 610 m nm | ||
| Postal code : | 976 02 (Post Office Staré Hory ) | ||
| Telephone code : | 0 48 | ||
| Geographic location : | 48 ° 51 ' N , 19 ° 5' E | ||
| License plate : | BB | ||
| Kód obce : | 557269 | ||
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| Community type : | local community | ||
| Administration (as of November 2018) | |||
| Mayor : | Ivan Janovec | ||
| Address: | Obecný úrad Turecká 341 976 02 Staré Hory |
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| Website: | www.obecturecka.sk | ||
| Statistics information on statistics.sk | |||
Turecká (Hungarian Török ) is a small community in the Okres Banská Bystrica within the Banskobystrický kraj in Slovakia with about 140 inhabitants.
The municipality is located in a narrow side valley of the Starohotský creek in the Great Fatra Mountains , within the boundaries of the local national park, under the Krížna mountain ( 1574 m nm ). It can only be reached on a district road three kilometers away from Staré Hory and is 17 kilometers north of Banská Bystrica .
Turecká, more precisely the Turecká valley, is mentioned for the first time in 1563 as vallis Turetzka and was a woodcutter and coal village that served to supply the huts in Staré Hory (German Old Mountains) and Špania Dolina (German Herrengrund). The division between an upper and a lower part has also been documented since the late 17th century. From 1808 to 1990 she was part of Staré Hory.
The name should not derive from Turks ( Turecká means Turkish in German), but from the location on an old road to the Turz landscape (Slov. Turiec ).