Svit
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Svit (<phonos file="Svit (Slovak pronunciation).ogg">pronunciation</phonos>) is a small town in Poprad District in the Prešov Region in northern Slovakia.[1] It lies 8 km (5 mi) west of the city of Poprad, at the foothills of the High Tatras.
Geography
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History
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Svit is one of the youngest Slovak towns. It was established in 1934 by business industrialist Jan Antonín Baťa of Zlín, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic) through his organization Baťa a.s., Zlin in accordance with his policy of setting up villages around the country for his workers. As a boy, Jan Baťa saw the poverty and sickness of his fellow countrymen. He wanted to change this by creating cities full of the most modern factories and filled with the best (and happiest) workers in Europe. The Baťa System under Jan's administration brought prosperity first to Moravia, and later Slovakia and Bohemia. It was Jan's policy for full employment that drove him to create each Baťa town for a different purpose: Shoes, Rubber and Tires, Textiles, Airplanes, Chemicals, Plastics, Media, Stockings, Leather, and Machinery.
When the World War II came, Jan Baťa's policy was to secretly fund the Czechoslovak government-in-exile, to supply the Czech Army with shoes and clothing and to secretly fund the Slovak National Uprising that started at Baťovany (now Partizánske) on 29 August 1944. Jan Baťa represented Czech/Slovak freedom and prosperity.
Svit is short for "Slovenské vizkózové továrne" (in English Slovak Viscose Works). Also, the word svit means 'shine' in Slovak and Ukrainian (related to Slovak úsvit, 'dawn'). Svit is the smallest town in Slovakia (4.5 km²) in terms of area, with a population of 7,790.
Population
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Ethnicity
Religion
Churches
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- Roman Catholic Church of St. Joseph
- Roman Catholic Church of St. Cyril and Methodius
- Greek Catholic Chapel of St. Cyril and Methodius
- Lutheran Church
Sports
The town is home to the professional basketball team BK Iskra Svit, which plays in the Slovak Extraliga.
Twin towns — sister cities
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- Template:Flagicon Česká Třebová, Czech Republic
- Template:Flagicon Knurów, Poland
- Template:Flagicon Partizánske, Slovakia
- Template:Flagicon San Lorenzo in Campo, Italy
See also
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic" (PDF). Výsledky SODB 2011. Štatistický úrad SR. Retrieved 9 August 2012.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Partnerské mestá" (in slovenčina). Svit. Retrieved 3 September 2019.
External links
- Official website (in Slovak only)
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