Nižný Tvarožec is a village

Village

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 and municipality

Municipality

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 in Bardejov District

Bardejov District

Bardejov District is a district in the Prešov Region of eastern Slovakia.Until 1918, the district was part of the Hungarian county of...

 in the Prešov Region

Prešov Region

The Prešov Region is one of the eight Slovak administrative regions. It consists of 13 districts.-Geography:It is located in north-eastern Slovakia and has an area of 8,975 km². The region has diverse types of landscapes occurring in Slovakia, but mostly highlands and hilly lands dominate the...

 of north-east Slovakia

Slovakia

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.

History

In historical records

History

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 the village

Village

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 was first mentioned in 1355.

The village is best known in the English-speaking world as the ancestral village of the American

United States

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 novelist Thomas Bell

Thomas Bell (novelist)

Thomas Bell was an American novelist.Bell was born Adalbert Thomas Belejcak on March 7, 1903 in Braddock, Pennsylvania, USA of immigrant Lemko Rusyn parents from the village of Nižný Tvarožec, Slovak republic. He worked in the steel mills there, beginning at the age of fifteen as an apprentice...

 (1903—1961). His popular 1941 novel Out of This Furnace

Out of This Furnace

Out of This Furnace is a historical novel and the best-known work of the American writer Thomas Bell .The novel is set in Braddock, Pennsylvania, a steel town just east of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania along the Monongahela River. It was first published in 1941 by Little, Brown and Company...

is the story of three generations of a family, starting with their migration in 1881 from Austria-Hungary

Austria-Hungary

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 to the United States

United States

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, and finishing with World War II

World War II

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. The novel's title refers to the central role of the steel mill

Steel mill

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 in the family's life and in the history of the Pittsburgh region.

Geography

The municipality

Municipality

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 lies at an altitude

Altitude

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 of 420 metres and covers an area

Area

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 of 11.157 km².
It has a population

Population

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of about 460 people.

External links

• http://www.statistics.sk/mosmis/eng/run.html