Svit
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| Country | File:Flag of Slovakia.svg Slovakia |
| Region | File:Presovsky vlajka.svg Prešov Region |
| District | Poprad District |
| First mentioned | 1946 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Ing. Dáša Vojsovičová |
| Area | |
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| Elevation | 720 m (2,360 ft) |
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| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Postal code | 592 1[3] |
| Area code | +421 52[3] |
| Vehicle registration plate (until 2022) | PP |
| Website | www |
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Svit is a small town in Poprad District in the Prešov Region in northern Slovakia.[4] It lies 8 km (5 mi) west of the city of Poprad, at the foothills of the High Tatras.
Geography
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History
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Svit is one of the youngest Slovak towns. It was established in 1934 by business industrialist Jan Antonín Baťa of Zlín, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic) through his organization Baťa a.s., Zlin in accordance with his policy of setting up villages around the country for his workers. As a boy, Jan Baťa 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 Baťa System under Jan's administration brought prosperity first to Moravia, and later Slovakia and Bohemia. It was Jan's policy for full employment that drove him to create each Baťa town for a different purpose: Shoes, Rubber and Tires, Textiles, Airplanes, Chemicals, Plastics, Media, Stockings, Leather, and Machinery.
When the World War II came, Jan Baťa's policy was to secretly fund the Czechoslovak government-in-exile, to supply the Czech Army with shoes and clothing and to secretly fund the Slovak National Uprising that started at Baťovany (now Partizánske) on 29 August 1944. Jan Baťa 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 Ukrainian. Svit is the smallest town in Slovakia (4.5 km²), with a population of 7,790.
Population
[edit | edit source]| Year | Pop. | ±% |
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| 1970 | 7,291 | — |
| 1980 | 8,048 | +10.4% |
| 1991 | 7,485 | −7.0% |
| 2001 | 7,445 | −0.5% |
| 2011 | 7,608 | +2.2% |
| 2021 | 7,743 | +1.8% |
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Ethnicity
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Religion
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Churches
[edit | edit source]- Roman Catholic Church of St. Joseph
- Roman Catholic Church of St. Cyril and Methodius
- Greek Catholic Chapel of St. Cyril and Methodius
- Lutheran Church
Sports
[edit | edit source]The town is home to the professional basketball team BK Iskra Svit, which plays in the Slovak Extraliga.
Twin towns — sister cities
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Česká Třebová, Czech Republic- Poland Knurów, Poland
- Slovakia Partizánske, Slovakia
- Italy San Lorenzo in Campo, Italy
See also
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Official website (in Slovak only)
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