Hnilec is a village and municipality in the Spišská Nová Ves District in the Košice Region of central-eastern Slovakia. The Košice Region (Slovak Košický Kraj) is one of the eight Slovak administrative regions. A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet, but smaller than a Town or City. A municipality is an administrative entity composed of a clearly defined territory and its population and commonly denotes a City, Town, or Village, or Spišská Nová Ves District ( okres Spišská Nová Ves) is a district The Košice Region (Slovak Košický Kraj) is one of the eight Slovak administrative regions. Slovakia (long form Slovak Republic; Slovak:, long form, is a Landlocked country in Central Europe with a population of over five million
In historical records the village was first mentioned in 1290. History is the study of the past particularly the written record Those who study history as a Profession are called Historians Etymology
The village lies at an altitude of 669 metres and covers an area of 27. A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet, but smaller than a Town or City. Altitude is the Elevation of a point or object from a known level or datum (plural data The metre or meter is a unit of Length. It is the basic unit of Length in the Metric system and in the International Area is a Quantity expressing the two- Dimensional size of a defined part of a Surface, typically a region bounded by a closed Curve. 082km². It has a population of about 515 people. In Biology a population is the collection of inter-breeding organisms of a particular Species; in Sociology