České Brezovo | |
Settlement Type: | Municipality |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type2: | Region |
Subdivision Name2: | Banská Bystrica |
Subdivision Type3: | District |
Subdivision Name3: | Poltár |
Pushpin Map: | Slovakia Banská Bystrica Region#Slovakia |
Pushpin Relief: | 1 |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of České Brezovo in the Banská Bystrica Region##Location of České Brezovo in Slovakia |
Coordinates: | 48.4333°N 58°W |
Established Title: | First mentioned |
Established Date: | 1435 |
Area Total Km2: | 38.66[1] |
Area Total Sq Mi: | 14.93 |
Elevation M: | 451[2] |
Elevation Ft: | 1,480 |
Population Total: | 433[3] |
Population Density Km2: | 11.34[4] |
Population Density Sq Mi: | 4.38 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Postal Code: | 985 03 |
Area Code: | +421 47 |
Blank Name: | Car plate |
Blank Info: | PT |
Website: | www.ceskebrezovo.sk |
České Brezovo (1773: Slovak: Cžeska Brezowa; hu|Csehberek, until 1899: Hungarian: Cseh-Brézó) is a village and municipality in the Poltár District in the Banská Bystrica Region of Slovakia.
In historical records, the village was surely mentioned in 1435 (Brezow, Bryzow), but the existence of the village in the area is recorded from 1334 as belonging to Zách, Bosnyák and Szentiványi families. In 1834 (sk|Ján Juraj Zahn) based a glasswork in Zlatno settlement. Before the establishment of independent Czechoslovakia in 1918, České Brezovo was part of Nógrád County within the Kingdom of Hungary. From 1939 to 1945, it was part of the Slovak Republic.
In České Brezovo was born Bohuslav Tablic, one of the leaders of Slovak classicism. Village commemorates him with a memory plaque on a public library.
The records for genealogical research are available at the state archive "Statny Archiv in Banska Bystrica, Slovakia"