Liesek

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Liesek

Total population

2,689

Founded

1558

Elevation651 m

Land area30.9 km²

Coordinates49.36°, 19.67°

Demographic figures from Statistical Office of Slovakia. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

City facts

Facts from Wikidata (CC0).

Overview

Liesek is a village and municipality in Tvrdošín District in the Žilina Region of northern Slovakia.

History & geography

Excerpted from the corresponding Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA).

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

Erik Jendrišek

Slovak footballer

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Darina Laščiaková

Slovak singer

O

Olinka Hardiman

French actress

Jan Szkodoń

Polish priest

Martin Hattala

Slovak pedagogue, Roman Catholic theologian and linguist (1821–1903)

István Kniezsa

Hungarian linguist and university professor (1898-1965)

József Sperlágh

Hungarian archaeologist, pharmacist and political activist (1829-1892)

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Marcel Schein

Slovak-born American physicist

A

Anna Kotočová

Olympic basketball player

Ján Čado

Slovak triple jumper who represented Czechoslovakia

Albert Škarvan

Slovak Esperantist, writer and science writer (1869-1926)

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Adolf Rosenzweig

German rabbi (1850-1918)

A

Andrej Brčák

Slovak football player

L

Lukáš Greššák

Slovak soccer player

P

Pavol Pilár

Slovak footballer

Peter Maslo

Slovak soccer player

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in Žilina

• Čimhová
  1.2 mi away
• Brezovica
  1.5 mi away · pop. 1,326
• Trstená
  2.7 mi away · pop. 7,537
• Vitanová
  2.7 mi away · pop. 1,253
• Zábiedovo
  3.9 mi away · pop. 813
• Hladovka
  4.2 mi away · pop. 975
• Tvrdošín
  5.4 mi away · pop. 9,401
• Suchá Hora
  5.5 mi away · pop. 1,319
• Štefanov nad Oravou
  5.6 mi away · pop. 633
• Habovka
  6.4 mi away · pop. 1,350
• Bobrov
  7.2 mi away · pop. 1,579
• Oravský Biely Potok
  7.3 mi away · pop. 630

Browse all places in Žilina →

Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.