Rimavská Bana
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Rimavská Baňa is a village
Village
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet with the population ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand , Though often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighbourhoods, such as the West Village in Manhattan, New...

 and municipality
Municipality
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 in the Rimavská Sobota District
Rimavská Sobota District
Rimavská Sobota District is a district in the Banská Bystrica Region of central Slovakia.Until 1918, the district was mostly part of the Hungarian county of Gemer a Malohont, apart from Konrádovce in the south-west which was part of the county of...

 of the Banská Bystrica Region
Banská Bystrica Region
The Banská Bystrica Region is one of the Slovak regions in the country of Slovakia in Europe.-Geography:It is located in the central part of Slovakia and has an area of 9,455 km². The region is prevailingly mountains, with several ranges within the area. The highest of them are the Low Tatras...

 of southern Slovakia
Slovakia
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. The name of the village means Mine of the Rimava region and is a commemoration of he mining
Mining
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 history of the region. Although mining is for some centuries not present, the village is a home to one of the nicest decorated church in the region. Protestant church from 13th century was several times rebuilt, its present from contains baroque
Baroque
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 features. It contains Gothic
Gothic art
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 wall paintings, painted wooden matroneum
Matroneum
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 from 1726 and painted wooden ceiling.

The village is a birthplace of Juraj Palkovič, Slovak politician, professor and teacher od Ľudovít Štúr
Ludovít Štúr
Ľudovít Štúr , known in his era as Ludevít Velislav Štúr, was the leader of the Slovak national revival in the 19th century, the author of the Slovak language standard eventually leading to the contemporary Slovak literary language...

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External links

  • http://www.statistics.sk/mosmis/eng/run.html
  • http://www.e-obce.sk/obec/rimavskabana/rimavska-bana.html
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