| Prievidza | |
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 Trinity monument in Prievidza
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| Country |  Slovakia |
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| Region | Trenčín |
| District | Prievidza |
| Tourism region | Horná Nitra |
| River | Nitra |
| Elevation | 280 m (919 ft) |
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| Area | 43. A geographic coordinate system enables every location on the Earth to be specified in three coordinates using mainly a spherical coordinate system. Slovakia (long form Slovak Republic; Slovak:, long form, is a Landlocked country in Central Europe with a population of over five million The Trenčín Region ( Slovak: Trenčiansky Kraj) is one of the eight Slovak administrative regions. Prievidza District ( okres Prievidza) is a district inthe The Nitra (- Slovak, German: Neutra, Hungarian: Nyitra) is a 197 km long River in western Slovakia. The metre or meter is a unit of Length. It is the basic unit of Length in the Metric system and in the International A foot (plural feet or foot; symbol or abbreviation ft or sometimes &prime – the prime symbol) is a non-SI unit 063 km² (16. Square Kilometre ( US spelling square kilometer) symbol km2, is a decimal multiple of the SI unit of 627 sq mi) |
| Population | 51,201 (2006-12-31) |
| Density | 1,189 /km² (3,079 /sq mi) |
| First mentioned | 1113 |
| Mayor | Ján Bodnár |
| Timezone | CET (UTC+1) |
| - summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) |
| Postal code | 971 01 |
| Area code | +421-46 |
| Car plate | PD |
   Location in Slovakia
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| Wikimedia Commons: Prievidza | |
| Statistics: MOŠ/MIS | |
| Website: www.prievidza.sk | |
Prievidza (pronunciation ; Hungarian: Privigye, German: Priwitz) is a city in the central-western Slovakia. The square mile is an imperial and US unit of Area equal the area of a square of one statute mile. Square Kilometre ( US spelling square kilometer) symbol km2, is a decimal multiple of the SI unit of The square mile is an imperial and US unit of Area equal the area of a square of one statute mile. Central European Time ( CET) is one of the names of the Time zone that is 1 hour ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. UTC+1 is used in the following locations Central European Time West Africa Time Western European Summer Time Central European Summer Time ( CEST) is one of the names of UTC+2 Time zone, 2 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. UTC+2 corresponds to the following Time zones Eastern European Time Egypt Standard Time Central Africa Time Since 1997, the Slovak car registration plate number (EČV evidenčné číslo vozidla generally takes the form XX-NNNYY, where XX is a two letter code corresponding Hungarian ( magyar nyelv) is a Uralic language (more specifically a Ugric language) unrelated to most other languages in Europe. The German language (de ''Deutsch'') is a West Germanic language and one of the world's major languages. Slovakia (long form Slovak Republic; Slovak:, long form, is a Landlocked country in Central Europe with a population of over five million With 51,200 inhabitants it is one of the biggest municipalities in the Trenčín Region. The Trenčín Region ( Slovak: Trenčiansky Kraj) is one of the eight Slovak administrative regions.
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Features
Prievidza is a centre for many institutions of regional importance - governmental as well as commercial. It is commonly called the "green city". The most prominent sporting clubs include the Prievidza Football Club and the Ice Hockey Club, both of which compete in the appropriate second national leagues. Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a Team sport played between two teams of eleven players and is widely considered Ice hockey, often referred to simply as hockey, is a team Sport played on Ice.
Prievidza has 6 boroughs: Staré mesto (Old Town in English), Píly, Necpaly, Kopanice, Zápotôčky and Žabník and there are three adjoining villages that are an administrative part of Prievidza: Hradec, Malá Lehôtka and Veľká Lehôtka.
History
The city was first mentioned in 1113 as Preuigan. It was promoted to a royal free town in 1383. Since the 16th century, craftsmanship was developing in Prievidza. From the 16th to the first third of the 17th century, the Thurzo family controlled the town. Thurzo or Turzo (- German; Thurzó Turzo) was a Hungarian noble family from the 15th century to the first half of the 17th century having mostly Hungarian Ottomans approached Prievidza from the south and burned it in 1599, along with other towns in the upper Nitra river valley. The Ottoman Empire (1299–1923 ( Old Ottoman Turkish: دولتْ علیّه عثمانیّه Devlet-i Âliye-yi Osmâniyye, Late Ottoman and Modern Turkish During the Kuruc uprising in 1673, Prievidza was burned down again, with fire burning a part of town's archives. The kuruc ( Hungarian: kuruczok/kurucok ''kuruc(z'' Slovak: kuruci ''kuruc'' was a term used to denote the armed anti- Habsburg In 1870, it had 2,719 inhabitants. Since the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, industry started to grow, as the railways to Prievidza were constructed. During the World War II, the city was one of the centres of partisans. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including Since the end of war, the population grew enormously from 5,000 inhabitants to around 53,000 inhabitants, as the industry grew. Prievidza became the home of many miners and workers that found employment in the coal mines, the power station and the chemical factory in the nearby town of Nováky. Nováky (Nyitranovák is a town in the Prievidza District, Trenčín Region in western Slovakia.
Geography
Prievidza lies at an altitude of 280 metres (919 ft) above sea level and covers an area of 43. The term above mean sea level ( AMSL) refers to the Elevation (on the ground or Altitude (in the Air) of any object relative to the 06 square kilometres (16. Square Kilometre ( US spelling square kilometer) symbol km2, is a decimal multiple of the SI unit of 6 sq mi). The square mile is an imperial and US unit of Area equal the area of a square of one statute mile. [1] The city is situated very near the smaller but more famous town of Bojnice, actually sharing the public transport system. Bojnice (Bajmóc Weinitz is a small town in central Slovakia at the upper Nitra river near the city of Prievidza. The valley of the Nitra River, in which the city lies, is surrounded by mountain ranges on all sides, in the west Strážov Mountains, in the north Malá Fatra, in the east Žiar and in the south Vtáčnik. The Nitra (- Slovak, German: Neutra, Hungarian: Nyitra) is a 197 km long River in western Slovakia. The Strážov Mountains (Strážovské vrchy are a Mountain range in northwestern Slovakia, being part of Inner Western Carpathians, and of the Lesser Fatra (also Little Fatra, Malá Fatra is a Mountain range in the Western Carpathians in the north-west of Central Slovakia. Vtáčnik is a mountain range in central Slovakia, which is part of the Slovenské stredohorie Mountains and part of the Inner Western Carpathians Prievidza is the eleventh largest city in Slovakia. It is located around 60 kilometres (37 mi) south of Žilina, 69 kilometres (43 mi) km east of the regional capital Trenčín and 158 kilometres (98 mi) km from Bratislava (by road). Žilina ( Sillein Zsolna names in other languages) is a city in north-western Slovakia, around from the capital Bratislava. Trenčín ( also known under alternative names) is a city in western Slovakia of the central Váh River valley near the Czech ARTICLE TEXT BEGINS AFTER THESE COMMENTS - PLEASE READ 1 Please do not edit the lead without reading
Climate
Prievidza lies in the north temperate zone and has a continental climate with four distinct seasons. Continental climate is a Climate that is characterized by Winter Temperatures cold enough to support a fixed period of Snow cover each Year It is characterized by a significant variation between hot summers and cold, snowy winters.
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
| Average high °C (°F) | 2 (35) | 5 (41) | 9 (49) | 16 (60) | 22 (71) | 24 (76) | 26 (78) | 26 (80) | 20 (69) | 15 (59) | 8 (47) | 2 (36) | |
| Average low °C (°F) | -4 (24) | -4 (25) | 0 (31) | 4 (40) | 9 (48) | 12 (53) | 13 (56) | 13 (56) | 9 (49) | 6 (41) | 2 (35) | -3 (26) | |
| Precipitation cm (inches) | 4. In Meteorology, precipitation (also known as one class of hydrometeors, which are atmospheric water phenomena is any product of the condensation of atmospheric 05 (1. 59) | 4. 28 (1. 69) | 3. 72 (1. 46) | 4. 62 (1. 82) | 5. 50 (2. 17) | 8. 46 (3. 33) | 7. 98 (3. 14) | 7. 63 (3. 00) | 6. 34 (2. 50) | 4. 98 (1. 96) | 5. 02 (1. 98) | 3. 62 (1. 43) | |
| Source: MSN Weather[2] 2008-01-22 | |||||||||||||
Demographics
According to the 2001 census, the town had 53,097 inhabitants. A census is the procedure of acquiring information about every member of a given population 96. 65% of inhabitants were Slovaks, 0. } The Slovaks or Slovakians are a western Slavic People that primarily inhabit Slovakia and speak the Slovak language, which is 95% Czechs, 0. Czechs (Češi ˈt͡ʃɛʃɪ archaic Čechové) are a western Slavic people of Central Europe, living predominantly in the Czech Republic 48% Hungarian and 0. Hungarians (or Magyars, magyarok are an Ethnic group primarily associated with Hungary. 29% Roma and Germans. The Romani people (singular Rom, plural Roma as a Noun; also known as Romanies or Roma people) are an ethnic group with origins The German people (Deutsche are an Ethnic group, in the sense of sharing a common German culture, descent and speaking the German language as [1] The religious make-up was 61. 91% Roman Catholics, 29. 01% people with no religious affiliation and 2. 29% Lutherans. Lutheranism is a major branch of Western Christianity that identifies with the teachings of the sixteenth-century German reformer Martin Luther [1]
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- ^ Monthly Averages for Prievidza, Slovakia. MSN. Retrieved on 22 January 2008. Events 565 - Eutychius is deposed as Patriarch of Constantinople by John Scholasticus. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common
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