Dobšiná
Sign in to saveDobšiná (; ; Latin: Dobsinium) is a small town in the Slovak Ore Mountains along the Slaná River. For 500 years it was a small but prosperous mining village populated by ethnic Germans within the Kingdom of Hungary; today it is a Slovak town of 6,000 most well known for its Ice Cave.
Key facts
- Slovak place.name
- Dobšiná
- Slovak place.settlement_type
- Town
- Slovak place.image_skyline
- Dobsina - Radnica - 2023.jpg
- Slovak place.image_caption
- Town hall in Dobšiná
- Slovak place.image_flag
- Dobsina-roznava-flag.svg
- Slovak place.image_shield
- Coa_Slovakia_Town_Dobsina.svg
- Slovak place.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Slovak place.subdivision_type2
- District
- Slovak place.subdivision_name2
- Rožňava District
- Slovak place.pushpin_map
- Slovakia#Slovakia Košice Region
- Slovak place.pushpin_relief
- yes
- Slovak place.pushpin_map_caption
- Location of Dobšiná in Slovakia
- Slovak place.leader_title
- Mayor
- Slovak place.leader_name
- Radovan Žori (SMER-SD, HLAS-SD, SNS)
- Slovak place.established_title
- First mentioned
- Slovak place.established_date
- 1326
- Slovak place.elevation_m
- 459
- Slovak place.postal_code_type
- Postal code
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Official website
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Slovakia
- Official name
- Dobsina
- Country
- Slovakia
- Located in
- Rožňava District
- Population
- 5158
- Area
- 82.727465
- Elevation
- 459
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Official website
- www.dobsina.sk
- Image
- Dobsina - Radnica - 2023.jpg
- Dialing code
- 058
- Licence plate code
- RV
- Connects with
- route I/67
Show 10 more facts
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- Commons category
- Dobšiná
- native label
- Dobšiná
- twinned administrative body
- Kobiór
- postal code
- 049 25
- topic's main category
- Category:Dobšiná
- time of earliest written record
- 1326-00-00
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- external data available at URL
- www.mestodobsina.szm.com
- inception
- 1326-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
14 sectionsContents
- Geography
- Etymology
- History
- Settlement
- Growth: 1400–1850
- Decline: 1850–1950
- Population
- Ethnicity
- Religion
- Twin towns — sister cities
- See also
- References
- Genealogical resources
- External links
Dobšiná (; ; Latin: Dobsinium) is a small town in the Slovak Ore Mountains along the Slaná River. For 500 years it was a small but prosperous mining village populated by ethnic Germans within the Kingdom of Hungary; today it is a Slovak town of 6,000 most well known for its Ice Cave.
==Geography==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dobšiná” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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