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Smolník, Gelnica District
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Smolník (German: Schmöllnitz, Hungarian: Szomolnok) is a village and municipality in the Gelnica District in the Košice Region of eastern Slovakia.
Etymology
The village got its name after the stream Smolník. – pitch, smolník – a settlement of people who collected pitch or lived in a forest where the pitch was collected. It belonged to a German language island. The German population was expelled in 1945.
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