- Gemer (village)
Gemer ( _de. (rare) Gömer, Gemer; _hu. Sajógömör) is a
village andmunicipality inRevúca District in theBanská Bystrica Region ofSlovakia .History
Important
Bronze Age finds have been made in the village. In historical records, the village was first mentioned in1198 as "Gomur" (1216 "Gumur", 1289 "Gemer") as a settlement below the much olderGemer Castle (which was originally a Slavic fortified settlement). The castle was the capital ofGemer and control point of all the ways forSpiš County.The settlement below the castle was a royal dominion and in the 14th century it became the capital of Gemer. It was besieged by the
Bohemian condottiereJiskra in the 15th century and it was pillaged by Turks in the 16th century. From1938 to1945 it belonged toHungary under theFirst Vienna Award .People
Other residents
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Samo Chalupka
*István Gyöngyösi
*Ján Kalinčiak
*Janko Kráľ
*Janko Matúška
*Francis II Rákóczi
*Sándor Rudnay
*Sándor Petőfi
*Pavel Jozef Šafárik
*Jonáš Záborský External links
* http://www.statistics.sk/mosmis/eng/run.html
* http://www.gemer.net
* http://svinica.ou.sk/gemer-sajogomor-o69-uvod.html
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