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Town in Slovakia
Partizanske
(
Slovak pronunciation:
[?partizaːnske]
ⓘ
, meaning "partisan town", formerly:
?imonovany
, from 1948:
Ba?ovany
,
Hungarian
:
Simony
) is a town in
Tren?in Region
,
Slovakia
.
Geography
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Partizanske is located in the northern part of the
Danubian Hills
around 55 km (34.18 mi) from
Nitra
and 131 km (81.40 mi) from the capital
Bratislava
, at the confluence of the
Nitra
and
Nitrica
rivers, near the
Tribe?
mountains.
History
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Partizanske is a relatively young town. Its history starts in 1938?1939, when
Jan Antonin Ba?a
of
Zlin
and his powerful network of companies built a shoe factory in the cadastral area of ?imonovany municipality. The newly created settlement for workers carried the name of Ba?ovany and was part of ?imonovany. With the growth of the factory, so grew the settlement. The whole municipality was renamed to Ba?ovany in 1948 and given town status. As a sign of recognition of local inhabitants fighting in the
Slovak National Uprising
, the town was renamed Partizanske on 9 February 1949.
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The factory was renamed by communists to
Zavody 29. augusta
(29 August works), and it produced 30 million pairs of shoes and employed around 10,000 people.
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However, after a failed privatisation in the 1990s, only a fraction is left now.
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Demographics
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According to the 2001
census
, the town had 24,907 inhabitants. 97.71% of inhabitants were
Slovaks
, 0.69%
Czechs
and 0.35%
Roma
.
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The religious makeup was 73.88%
Roman Catholics
, 18.07% people with no religious affiliation, and 2.95%
Lutherans
.
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Sport
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The association football team ?K Slovan ?imonovany play at the stadium in the east of the town, off the Nemocni?na cesta road.
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The stadium was a former venue for
motorcycle speedway
from 1958 to 1965 and hosted a final round of the
Czechoslovak Individual Speedway Championship
in 1961 and 1962.
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Another football team FK Tempo Partizanske play at the Rudolfa Ja?ika stadium in the south of the town, which is adjacent to and on the right of the ice hockey stadium (Zimny ?tadion).
Notable natives and residents
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Twin towns ? sister cities
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Partizanske is
twinned
with:
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