Svit
Svit
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| Country | Slovakia |
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| Region | Prešov |
| District | Poprad |
| Tourism region | Tatry |
| Elevation | 763 m (2,503 ft) |
| Coordinates | 49°03′57″N 20°11′14″E / 49.06583°N 20.18722°E |
| Area | 4.506 km² (2 sq mi) |
| Population | 7,510 (2005-12-31) |
| Density | 1,667 / km² (4,318 / sq mi) |
| Mayor | Rudolf Abrahám |
| Timezone | CET (UTC+1) |
| - summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) |
| Postal code | 059 21 |
| Phone prefix | 421-52 |
| Car plate | PP |
   Location of Svit in Slovakia
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  Location of Svit in the Prešov Region
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| Website: http://www.svit.sk | |
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Svit (Hungarian: Szvit, German: Svit) is a small town and municipality in Poprad District in the Prešov Region in northern Slovakia. It lies 8 km (5 mi) west of the city of Poprad, at the foothills of the High Tatras.
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History
Svit is one of the youngest Slovak towns. It was established in 1934 by business industrialist Jan Antonin Bata of Zlin Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic) through his organization Bata a.s., Zlin in accordance with his policy of setting up villages around the country for his workers. As a boy, Jan Bata 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 Bata System under Jan's administration brought propserity first to Moravia, and later Slovakia and Bohemia. It was Jan's policy for full employment that drove him to create each Bata town for a different purpose: Shoes, Rubber and Tires, Textiles, Airplanes, Chemicals, Plastics, Media, Stockings, Leather, Machinery. Jan Bata's business were all successful, as he had planned and have brought prosperity to the whole country until this day. When the Second World war came, Jan's policy was to secretly fund the Czechoslovak government in exile, to secretly supply the Czech Army with shoes and clothing, to secretly fund the Slovak Uprising that started at Batovany (now Partizanske) on August 29, 1944. Jan Bata 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 language.) Svit is the smallest town in Slovakia (4.5 km²) with the population of 7,400.
Demographics
According to the 2001 census, the town had 7,445 inhabitants. 96.44% of inhabitants were Slovaks, 1.11% Romani and 0.79% Czechs. The religious make-up was 62.53% Roman Catholics, 20.67% people with no religious affiliation, 8.62% Lutherans and 4.00% Greek Catholics.
Partner cities
Knurów, Poland
Česká Třebová, Czech Republic
- ^ a b "Municipal Statistics". Statistical Office of the Slovak republic. Archived from the original on 2007-12-17. http://web.archive.org/web/20071217080336/http://www.statistics.sk/mosmis/eng/run.html. Retrieved 2007-12-19.
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