Liptovská Teplička is a large village

Village

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 and municipality

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 in Poprad District

Poprad District

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 in the Prešov Region

Prešov Region

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 of northern Slovakia

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.

History

In historical records

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 the village was first mentioned in 1634.

Settled probably before 1612 when the village Pohorelá

Pohorelá

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 (with that it shares the origins) was first mentioned in written records. The name Teplička (or its Hungarian transcript Teplicska) used till around 1920 when the adjective Liptovská (related to the Liptov

Liptov

Liptó is the name of a historic administrative county of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory is presently in northern Slovakia.-Geography:...

 region) had been added to distinguish it from other villages with the same name in Slovakia. A new road connecting the village with Poprad

Poprad

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 has been built after the World War II

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, and in the subsequent change of administrative divisions in 1960, the village has been integrated to the Poprad District

Poprad District

Poprad District is a district inthe Prešov Region of eastern Slovakia.Until 1918, the district was almost entirely part of the Hungarian county of Spiš, apart from two small areas in the...

 of the then Eastern-Slovakian region, since 1996 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...

. (The traditional road connecting the village with the historical Liptov

Liptov

Liptó is the name of a historic administrative county of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory is presently in northern Slovakia.-Geography:...

 region remains now inaccessible for motor cars.)

The name Teplička comes from the small creek Teplica flowing through the village that does not freeze even in the toughest winters ('teplý' means warm in Slovak language).

Geography

The municipality

Municipality

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 lies at an elevation

Elevation

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 of 919 metres (3,015 ft) and covers an area

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 of 98.69 km² (38.10 mi²). It has a population

Population

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of about 2270 people.

External links

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