| Dubnica nad Váhom | |
| Settlement Type: | Town |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type2: | Region |
| Subdivision Name2: | Trenčín |
| Subdivision Type3: | District |
| Subdivision Name3: | Ilava |
| Pushpin Map: | Slovakia Trenčín Region#Slovakia |
| Pushpin Relief: | 1 |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Dubnica nad Váhom in the Trenčín Region |
| Coordinates: | 48.9606°N 18.1739°W |
| Leader Title: | Mayor |
| Leader Name: | Peter Wolf |
| Established Title: | First mentioned |
| Established Date: | 1193 |
| Area Total Km2: | 49.13[1] |
| Area Total Sq Mi: | 18.97 |
| Elevation M: | 253[2] |
| Elevation Ft: | 830 |
| Population Total: | 22,286[3] |
| Population Density Km2: | 456.69[4] |
| Population Density Sq Mi: | 176.33 |
| Timezone1: | CET (UTC+1) |
| Timezone1 Dst: | CEST (UTC+2) |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
| Postal Code: | 018 41 |
| Area Code: | +421 42 |
| Blank Name: | Car plate |
| Blank Info: | IL |
| Website: | www.dubnica.eu |
Dubnica nad Váhom (; Slovak before 1927: Dubnica, German: Dubnitz an der Waag, Hungarian: Máriatölgyes, before 1899 Dubnic(z)) is a town in the Ilava District, Trenčín Region in Slovakia.
It is located on the Váh river, in the Ilava Basin, between the White Carpathians and Strážovské vrchy mountains, at an altitude of 242 metres. The town's cadastral area is composed of Dubnica and "city part" Prejta, annexed in 1973.
Traces of settlement in the place of today's town are from the Stone Age.[5] The first written mention about Dubnica nad Váhom was in 1193 as Dubnicza. Sometime in the 15th century the village passed to the rule of the Trenčín Castle. After incorporation into Czechoslovakia, construction of a munition factory was negotiated in 1928 and built in 1936.
During the Second World War, a Roma concentration camp was set up in the town. At its height, the camp housed more than 700 Roma prisoners, most of whom had been used as slave labour in the nearby factory and to build a dam on the River Vah. During January 1945 several inmates and one guard fell ill with typhus. On February 23, 1945 the inmates were taken out and murdered to stop the spread of Typhus. This was among the largest killing of Roma in Slovakia during the war. https://www.upn.gov.sk/data/files/skladacky-2017-7_8.pdfhttp://romafacts.uni-graz.at/get_pdf.php?file=pdf_docs/ROMANI_HISTORY/English/H_5.6_holocaust_czechoslovakia.pdfhttp://www.romaholocaust.sk/en/history/96-the-detention-camp-in-dubnica-nad-vahomhttps://www.romasintigenocide.eu/en/pdf-eng/dubnicahttp://monuments-remembrance.eu/en/panstwa/slowacja-2/227-ma-bisteren-don-t-forget-in-roma
During the Communist Czechoslovakia, it was one of the biggest arms producers in the whole country. After the Velvet Revolution in 1989, the factory was shut down and only fragments are left now.[6]
According to the 2001 census, the town had 25,995 inhabitants. 96.6% of inhabitants were Slovaks, 1.4% Czechs and 0.2% Roma and 0.2 Hungarians.[7] The religious make-up was 76.7% Roman Catholics, 16.4% people with no religious affiliation, and 2.5% Lutherans.[7]
See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in Slovakia.
Dubnica nad Váhom is twinned with:[8]
Vác, Hungary
Zawadzkie, Poland
Otrokovice, Czech Republic
Yaroslavl, RussiaThe records for genealogical research are available at the state archive "Statny Archiv in Bratislava, Bytca, Slovakia"