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Podolínec
Prešovtown
Podolínec
Total population
3,243
Founded
1244
Demographic figures from Statistical Office of Slovakia. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.
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Overview
Podolínec is a town in the Stará Ľubovňa District of the Prešov Region in northern Slovakia, in the historic region of Spiš.
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History
The first written record of Podolínec, as part of Polish-ruled Sącz Land, dates from 1236 and is included in the Kraków Bishop complaint to the Pope regarding the Hungarian clergy, illegally collecting taxes from the local church, which belonged to the Diocese of Kraków. In 1244 Bolesław V the Chaste, the Duke of Sandomierz-Kraków land granted a location permit to a knight from Kraków, called Henryk. In 1292 the place was given town rights for welcoming German settlers from Silesia, from which on the town was called Pudlein. It was the first of the Spisz towns obtaining the staple right. Around 1400, local shoemakers founded the region's first guild order. Later in the second half of the 14th century, the town passed in the reign of Hungary. In April 1412, King Sigismund of Luxembourg promoted Podolínec to the status of a free royal town, but later that year it was granted back to Poland as a result of the Treaty of Lubowla and it remained Polish until 1772. There was a Piarists' Collegium, founded by the starosta of Spisz, Stanisław Lubomirski. The most famous ward of the Collegium was Stanisław Konarski who joined the Piarist Order in 1715. Podolínec was at that time a walled town with its own castle. It was the only town in the Spiš region to resist the Hussite raids. Following the First Partition of Poland in 1772, the grant was cancelled in 1773 and the town was re-incorporated into the Kingdom of Hungary three years later. It was part of the "Province of 16 Spiš towns" in the 18th and 19th centuries, but its privileges were gradually reduced and in the end it was incorporated into Szepes County. The industrial revolution bypassed Podolínec and the railway came to the town only in 1893, when some small industrial production developed. Before the establishment…
Geography
The town lies near the Poprad River, in the Spiš region, near the Spišská Magura range. It is located approximately from Stará Ľubovňa and from Poprad.
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Nearby places in Prešov
- Podhorany2.7 mi away
- Bušovce3.4 mi away · pop. 313
- Vyšné Ružbachy3.5 mi away · pop. 1,294
- Forbasy4.6 mi away · pop. 394
- Ihľany5 mi away
- Slovenská Ves5.3 mi away · pop. 1,816
- Spišská Belá5.9 mi away · pop. 6,265
- Kamienka6.3 mi away · pop. 1,392
- Reľov7.6 mi away · pop. 339
- Zálesie7.7 mi away · pop. 92
- Jarabina7.9 mi away · pop. 862
- Lendak8.3 mi away · pop. 4,820
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- • Open-Meteo / sunrise-sunset.org
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