Banská Štiavnica
Banská Štiavnica (in Hungarian: Selmecbánya, in German: Schemnitz) is a city of the center of the Slovakia in the mountains Štiavnické vrchy which counted 11.000 inhabitants in 1991.
The medieval city, completely preserved, as well as the neighborhoods were registered the December 11th 1993 on the Liste of the world heritage of UNESCO.
Starting from the the Middle Ages, its main activity is the production of money and Or. It is here that is, for the first time, that is used the Gunpowder in a mine (1627). A school of mine is founded there in 1735, that the queen Marie-Therese I {{Re}} (1717-1780) transforms into 1762 in Academy, the first of the kind. In 1919, after the creation of the Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia this one is moved with Sopron (in the current Hungary). In 1782, it was the third plus big city of the kingdom of Hungary with 23.192 inhabitants (more than 40000 if the suburbs there is included) after Bratislava and Debrecen. The mining activity declines starting from second half of the 19th century.
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