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3 unusual facts about Prešov


Jozef Regec

Jozef Regec (born 29 March 1965 in Kežmarok, Prešov) was a Czechoslovak national bicycle team member between 1986 and 1993 and Czech between 1993 and 2000.

Šarišan

The ensemble currently is run by the Park kultúry a oddychu (The Center of Performing Arts) in Prešov.

Stephen Varzaly

Varzaly was born October 6, 1890 in the village of Fulianka, Austria-Hungary (now Slovakia) and studied at the Greek Catholic Seminary in Prešov.


Frigyes Ákos Hazslinszky

After a stint as teacher in Debrecen and Sárospatak, and further studies in Vienna, he became professor of physics and mathematic at the Lutheran College in Eperjes (today Prešov) in 1846.

Kamenná

Kamenná Poruba, Vranov nad Topľou District, village and municipality in Vranov nad Topľou District in the Prešov Region of eastern Slovakia

Lužany

Lužany pri Topli, a village and municipality in Svidník District in the Prešov Region of north-eastern Slovakia.

Marek Špilár

Špilár died in September 2013 at the age of 38 when he committed suicide by jumping out of a fifth-floor flat window in the city of Prešov.

Pentapolitana

Pentapolitana (or rarely Pentapolis) was a league of townsin the Middle Ages of the five most important Hungarian royal free cities (Latin: libera regiae civitas, Hungarian: szabad királyi város, German: Königliche Freistadt; Slovak: slobodné kráľovské mesto) of the Kingdom of Hungary; Kassa (today Košice), Bártfa (Bardejov), Lőcse (Levoča), Eperjes (Prešov), and Kisszeben (Sabinov) .

Péter Fülöp Kocsis

On June 30, 2008 he was consecrated bishop of Hajdúdorog Solid Cross, being co-consecrator the Greek Catholic Archbishop of Presov, Ján Babjak and Greek Catholic bishop Milan Šašik of Mukachevo.

Spišské

Spišské Bystré, large village and municipality in Poprad District in the Prešov Region of northern Slovakia

Spišské Hanušovce, village and municipality in Kežmarok District in the Prešov Region of north Slovakia


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