Prešov Region
Kežmarok District
Kežmarok

Kežmarok

Kežmarok is a historical town in the of . Like towns in the area it formerly had a large Carpathian German population. The town's notable sites of interest include a castle, a spectacular wooden church in the UNESCO World Heritage List, and a pedestrianised historical town centre.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Kežmarok Castle and Articular church, Kežmarok.

Museum
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is a museum.

Church
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The Articular church in Kežmarok is a wooden church in Kežmarok, . The local Lutherans built it following a period of religious persecution, when in 1681 the Congress of permitted Lutherans, in articles 26 and 27 of an agreement, to erect two churches in each of eleven counties of the Kingdom of Hungary, nine of which are in present-day Slovakia.

Church
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The Basilica minor of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross is a Late Gothic three-nave Catholic church located in the town of Kežmarok in the region of eastern .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ľubica and Malý Slavkov.

Village
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is a large and municipality in in the of north . It is now a mostly housing development district with many panel block houses.

Village
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is a and municipality in in the of north .

Village
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is a and municipality in in the of north . is situated 4½ km southwest of Kežmarok.

Kežmarok

Latitude
49.1362° or 49° 8′ 10″ north
Longitude
20.4309° or 20° 25′ 51″ east
Population
17,000
Elevation
630 metres (2,067 feet)
United Nations Location Code
SK KZK
Open location code
8GX24CPJ+F8
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26036067
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
724503
Wiki­data ID
Q327977
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yiddish—“Kežmarok” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كيجماروك”
  • Armenian: “Կեժմարոկ”
  • Asturian: “Kežmarok”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kejmarok”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kežmarok”
  • Basque: “Kežmarok”
  • Belarusian: “Кежмарак”
  • Belarusian: “Кежмарк”
  • Bulgarian: “Кежмарок”
  • Catalan: “Kežmarok”
  • Cebuano: “Kežmarok”
  • Chinese: “凯日马罗克”
  • Chinese: “凱日馬羅克”
  • Croatian: “Kežmarok”
  • Czech: “Kežmarok”
  • Danish: “Kežmarok”
  • Dutch: “Kezmarok”
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  • Egyptian Arabic: “كيجماروك”
  • Esperanto: “Késmárk”
  • Esperanto: “Kežmarok”
  • Estonian: “Kežmarok”
  • Finnish: “Kezmarok”
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  • French: “Kezmarok”
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  • Galician: “Kežmarok”
  • German: “Kaesmark”
  • German: “Käsmark”
  • German: “Kesmark”
  • German: “Kezmarok”
  • German: “Kežmarok”
  • Greek: “Κεζμαρόκ”
  • Hebrew: “קז’מארוק”
  • Hungarian: “Késmárk”
  • Hungarian: “Kežmarok”
  • Irish: “Kežmarok”
  • Italian: “Kezmarok”
  • Italian: “Kežmarok”
  • Japanese: “ケジマロク”
  • Japanese: “ケジュマロク”
  • Korean: “케주마로크”
  • Latin: “Caesaropolis”
  • Latin: “Kesmarkinum”
  • Latin: “Villa (Saxonum apud Ecclesiam) Sancte Elisabeth”
  • Latvian: “Kežmaroka”
  • Lithuanian: “Kežmarokas”
  • Lombard: “Kežmarok”
  • Malay: “Kežmarok”
  • Moksha: “Кэжмарок”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kežmarok”
  • Persian: “کژمارک”
  • Polish: “Kezmarok”
  • Polish: “Kežmarok”
  • Polish: “Kieżmark”
  • Portuguese: “Kežmarok”
  • Romanian: “Kezmarok”
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  • Russian: “Кежмарок”
  • Rusyn: “Кежмарок”
  • Scots: “Kežmarok”
  • Serbian: “Kežmarok”
  • Serbian: “Кежмарк”
  • Serbian: “Кежмарок”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kežmarok”
  • Silesian: “Kežmarok”
  • Slovak: “Käsmark”
  • Slovak: “Kežmarok”
  • Slovenian: “Kežmarok”
  • Spanish: “Kasmark”
  • Spanish: “Käsmark”
  • Spanish: “Kesmark”
  • Spanish: “Kesmárk”
  • Spanish: “Késmark”
  • Spanish: “Késmárk”
  • Spanish: “Kezmarok”
  • Spanish: “Kežmarok”
  • Spanish: “Kiezmark”
  • Spanish: “Kieżmark”
  • Swedish: “Kezmarok”
  • Swedish: “Kežmarok”
  • Tatar: “Кежмарок”
  • Turkish: “Kežmarok”
  • Ukrainian: “Кежмарок”
  • Urdu: “کژمارک”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kežmarok”
  • Yiddish: “קעזמארק”
  • “Kežmarok”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Kežmarok”. Photo: Kezmarcan, CC BY-SA 3.0.