Brezno ( pronunciation (help·info); German: Bries(en), Hungarian: Breznóbánya) is a town in central Slovakia, with a population of 22,279 (2005).
It is located in the Horehronské podolie basin, on the Hron river, between mountain ranges of Low Tatras and the Slovak Ore Mountains, around 45 km from Banská Bystrica. Local climate in the basin is rather cold, with an annual average of 6.6°C and annual precipitation of 700–750 mm.
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Brezno ( pronunciation (help·info); German: Bries(en), Hungarian: Breznóbánya) is a town in central Slovakia, with a population of 22,279 (2005).
It is located in the Horehronské podolie basin, on the Hron river, between mountain ranges of Low Tatras and the Slovak Ore Mountains, around 45 km from Banská Bystrica. Local climate in the basin is rather cold, with an annual average of 6.6°C and annual precipitation of 700–750 mm.
The place has been inhabited since prehistoric times, but the current town arose from an old Slovak settlement, next to which newly arrived German miners erected a typical square market in the early 13th century. The first written evidence of the town's existence is dated 1265 when King Béla IV of Hungary issued a charter for the hunters from the area of Liptov allowing them to use woods around the settlement, known as Berezuno. The name is derived from the Slovak word "breza" for birch. In the nineteenth century Brezno was a typical almost purely Slovak town...
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