Dubnica nad Váhom ( pronunciation ; 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 .
8-637: 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 . The first written mention about Dubnica nad Váhom was in 1193 as Dubnicza . Sometime in
16-682: 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. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] During the Communist Czechoslovakia , it was one of the biggest arms producers in the whole country. After the Velvet Revolution in 1989,
24-535: 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
32-539: The Czech Republic, founded in 1980, a Man and Biosphere Reserve since 1996. The areas contain a wide variety of fauna and flora . Some species found there are endemic , especially some types of orchids which grow only in the meadows of the White Carpathians. Lednica Castle is perhaps the most inaccessible one among the castles in Slovakia. It was built in the middle of the 13th century and
40-427: The factory was shut down and only fragments are left now. 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 . The religious make-up was 76.7% Roman Catholics , 16.4% people with no religious affiliation, and 2.5% Lutherans . Dubnica nad Váhom is twinned with: The records for genealogical research are available at
48-727: The macroregion of Slovak-Moravian Carpathians , stretching from the Váh river and the Little Carpathians in the south along the border between the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the Morava and the Javorníky range in the north. The mean elevation is 473 m (1,552 ft) and the highest peaks are: The landscape is protected on both sides of the mountains: Biele Karpaty Protected Landscape Area in Slovakia , founded in 1979, and Bílé Karpaty Protected Landscape Area in
56-586: The state archive "Statny Archiv in Bratislava, Bytca, Slovakia" [REDACTED] Media related to Dubnica nad Váhom at Wikimedia Commons White Carpathians The White Carpathians ( Czech : Bílé Karpaty ; Slovak : Biele Karpaty ; German : Weiße Karpaten ) are a mountain range on the border of the Czech Republic and Slovakia , part of the Carpathians . They are part of
64-511: Was the seat of the Lednice estate. Austrian imperial troops destroyed it at the beginning of the 18th century during Rákóczi's War of Independence . Only the remains of walls survive. This Zlín Region location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This Slovak geography article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Lednica, P%C3%BAchov District Lednica ( Hungarian : Lednic )
#562437