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Banská Štiavnica
Banská Štiavnica, Hungarian Selmecbánya and German Schemnitz, is a town in central Slovakia. Silver and gold mining there expanded in the thirteenth century with German settlers and made it one of the richest mining towns of the Kingdom of Hungary. In the eighteenth century it became the seat of an influential mining academy, and its historic town and mining works are a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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