Smolník, Gelnica District

Smolník (German: Schmöllnitz, Hungarian: Szomolnok) is a village and municipality in the Gelnica District in the Košice Region of eastern Slovakia.

Slovak: smola – pitch, smolník – a settlement of people who collected pitch or lived in a forest where the pitch was collected.

[4] It belonged to a German language island.

The German population was expelled in 1945.

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