Pružina
Encyclopedia
Village
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and municipality
Municipality
A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...
in Považská Bystrica District
Považská Bystrica District
Považská Bystrica District is adistrict inthe Trenčín Region of western Slovakia.Until 1918, the district was part of theHungarian countyof Trenčín.-Municipalities:*Bodiná*Brvnište*Čelkova Lehota*Dolná Mariková...
in the Trenčín Region
Trencín Region
The Trenčín Region is one of the eight Slovak administrative regions. It consists of 9 districts .-Geography:It is located in the north-western Slovakia, has an area of 4,502 km² and a population of 600,386 . The Danubian Lowland reaches the region to Nové Mesto nad Váhom and Partizánske areas...
of north-western Slovakia
Slovakia
The Slovak Republic is a landlocked state in Central Europe. It has a population of over five million and an area of about . Slovakia is bordered by the Czech Republic and Austria to the west, Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east and Hungary to the south...
.
Pružina is also a surname that comes from the village of Pružina and is very uncommon.
Geography
The municipalityMunicipality
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lies at an altitude
Altitude
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of 381 metres and covers an area
Area
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of 40.430 km². It has a population
Population
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of about 1917 people.
People
- Gábor BarossGábor BarossGábor Baross , Hungarian statesman, was born at Pružina near Trencsén on 6 July 1848, and educated at Esztergom. He was for a time one of the professors there under Cardinal Kolos Vaszary. After acquiring considerable local reputation as chief notary of his county, he entered parliament in 1875...
, statesman, was born in Pružina - Štefan Závodník, local priest; the local chapel was built on his order
External links
- http://www.statistics.sk/mosmis/eng/run.html