Smolník, Gelnica District

Smolník

German: *Schmöllnitz*
Hungarian: *Szomolnok*
Smolník German: Schmöllnitz; Hungarian: Szomolnok
Town
	Smolník in 1998
Country	Slovakia
Region	Košice
District	Gelnica
Area
• Total	68.97 km2 (26.63 sq mi)
Elevation	567 m (1,860 ft)
Population (2021)
• Total	968
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Area code	+421 53
Website	www.smolnik.sk

Smolník (German: Schmöllnitz, Hungarian: Szomolnok) is a village and municipality in the Gelnica District in the Košice Region of eastern Slovakia.

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The village got its name after the stream Smolník. Slovak: smola – pitch, smolník – a settlement of people who collected pitch or lived in a forest where the pitch was collected.^[4] It belonged to a German language island. The German population was expelled in 1945.

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"Základná charakteristika". www.statistics.sk (in Slovak). Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic. 2015-04-17. Retrieved 2022-03-31.
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"Počet obyvateľov podľa pohlavia - obce (ročne)". www.statistics.sk (in Slovak). Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic. 2022-03-31. Retrieved 2022-03-31.
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Štefánik, Martin; Lukačka, Ján, eds. (2010). Lexikón stredovekých miest na Slovensku [Lexicon of Medieval Towns in Slovakia] (PDF) (in Slovak). Bratislava: Historický ústav SAV. pp. 436, 445. ISBN 978-80-89396-11-5.