Banska Bystrica is a city in central Slovakia on the Hron River, set in a valley ringed by the Low Tatras, the Velka Fatra, and the Kremnica Mountains. It was founded by German settlers invited by the Arpad rulers of Hungary over an earlier Slavic and Avar settlement, and in 1255 it received the privileges of a free royal town from King Bela IV and was resettled by Germans from Thuringia. It grew wealthy as a copper mining center, and its late medieval churches, mansions, and fortifications survive today; with about 76,000 residents it is the sixth largest municipality in Slovakia and serves as a regional capital and university city.
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1. Wikidata: Banska Bystrica
- Wikidata Q144983, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
Wikidata Q144983 P1249, class allow-list match, knownqid pass (w-bbfill-geography5-0926)
P1249 value year 1255
View the Source2. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 48.75, 19.25Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 48.75, 19.25
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3. GeoNames: Banská Bystrica - GeoNames
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48.73947 19.14932 P PPLA SK 01 601 508438 74590 329 Europe/Bratislava
Banska Bystrica (Wikipedia)
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