Pohronská Polhora
Pohronská Polhora is a village and municipality in Brezno District, in the Banská Bystrica Region of central Slovakia. The first direct mention of the village dates back to 1786, although it is known that the famous outlaw Jakub Surovec was captured there as early as 1740.Photo: Pudelek, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Village with 1,650 residents
- Description: municipality of Slovakia
- Also known as: “Pohronska Polhora”, “Pohronská Polhora (Slovakia)”, and “Polhora”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Michalová and Dobroč.
Michalová
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Michalová is a village and municipality in Brezno District, in the Banská Bystrica Region of central Slovakia.
Dobroč
Hamlet
Photo: Draceane, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Dobroč is a hamlet, which is situated 8 km west of Pohronská Polhora.
Beňuš
Village
Photo: ErikSkolka, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Beňuš is a village and municipality in Brezno District, in the Banská Bystrica Region of central Slovakia. Beňuš is situated 9 km north of Pohronská Polhora.
Pohronská Polhora
- Categories: municipality of Slovakia and locality
- Location: Michalová, Brezno District, Banská Bystrica Region, Slovakia, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
48.75494° or 48° 45′ 18″ northLongitude
19.79891° or 19° 47′ 56″ eastPopulation
1,650Elevation
609 metres (1,998 feet)United Nations Location Code
SK PPHOpen location code
8FWXQQ3X+XHOpenStreetMap ID
node 26038033OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Waray—“Pohronská Polhora” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Pohronská Polhora”
- Catalan: “Pohronská Polhora”
- Chinese: “Pohronská Polhora”
- Croatian: “Pohronská Polhora”
- Czech: “Pohronská Polhora (Slovakia)”
- Czech: “Pohronská Polhora”
- Dutch: “Pohronská Polhora”
- Esperanto: “Pohronská Polhora”
- French: “Pohronská Polhora”
- German: “Pohronská Polhora (Slovakia)”
- German: “Pohronská Polhora”
- Hungarian: “Erdőköz”
- Hungarian: “Pohronská Polhora”
- Irish: “Pohronská Polhora”
- Italian: “Pohronská Polhora”
- Lombard: “Pohronská Polhora”
- Malay: “Pohronská Polhora”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Pohronská Polhora”
- Polish: “Pohronská Polhora”
- Portuguese: “Pohronská Polhora”
- Romanian: “Pohronská Polhora”
- Serbian: “Pohronská Polhora”
- Serbian: “Похронска Полхора”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Pohronská Polhora”
- Slovak: “Pohronská Polhora”
- Spanish: “Pohronská Polhora”
- Turkish: “Pohronská Polhora”
- Ukrainian: “Pohronská Polhora”
- Ukrainian: “Погронська Полгора”
- Waray (Philippines): “Pohronská Polhora”
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