Smolník | |
Other Name: | de|Schmöllnitz hu|Szomolnok |
Settlement Type: | Town |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Slovakia |
Subdivision Type2: | Region |
Subdivision Name2: | Košice |
Subdivision Type3: | District |
Subdivision Name3: | Gelnica |
Pushpin Map: | Slovakia |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Smolník in Slovakia |
Area Total Km2: | 68.97[1] |
Area Total Sq Mi: | 26.63 |
Elevation M: | 567[2] |
Elevation Ft: | 1,860 |
Population Total: | 968[3] |
Population Density Km2: | 14.16[4] |
Population Density Sq Mi: | 5.47 |
Timezone1: | CET (UTC+1) |
Timezone1 Dst: | CEST (UTC+2) |
Postal Code: | 055 66 |
Area Code: | +421 53 |
Website: | www.smolnik.sk |
Smolník (German: Schmöllnitz, Hungarian: Szomolnok) is a village and municipality in the Gelnica District in the Košice Region of eastern Slovakia.
The village got its name after the stream Smolník. sk|smola – pitch, smolník – a settlement of people who collected pitch or lived in a forest where the pitch was collected.[5] It belonged to a German language island. The German population was expelled in 1945.