Smolník | |
Other Name: | Schmöllnitz |
Settlement Type: | Municipality |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Region |
Subdivision Type2: | District |
Subdivision Name2: | Gelnica District |
Pushpin Map: | Slovakia Košice Region#Slovakia |
Pushpin Relief: | 1 |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Smolník in the Košice Region##Location of Smolník in Slovakia |
Coordinates: | 48.73°N 20.73°W |
Established Title: | First mentioned |
Established Date: | 1327 |
Area Footnotes: | [1] |
Area Total Km2: | 68.97 |
Elevation Footnotes: | [2] |
Elevation M: | 567 |
Population Footnotes: | [3] |
Population Total: | 955 |
Timezone1: | CET |
Utc Offset1: | +1 |
Timezone1 Dst: | CEST |
Utc Offset1 Dst: | +2 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Postal Code: | 556 6 |
Area Code: | +421 53 |
Blank Name: | Car plate |
Blank Info: | GL |
Smolník (German: Schmöllnitz, Hungarian: Szomolnok) is a village and municipality in the Gelnica District in the Košice Region of eastern Slovakia.
The village got its name after the stream Smolník. sk|smola – pitch, smolník – a settlement of people who collected pitch or lived in a forest where the pitch was collected.[4] It belonged to a German language island. The German population was expelled in 1945.