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Gemer Sajógömör
Municipality
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GemerLocation of Gemer in the Banská Bystrica RegionShow map of Banská Bystrica RegionGemerLocation of Gemer in SlovakiaShow map of Slovakia
Coordinates: 48°27′N 20°19′E / 48.450°N 20.317°E / 48.450; 20.317
Country	Slovakia
Region	Banská Bystrica Region
District	Revúca District
First mentioned	1198
Area
• Total	17.97 km (6.94 sq mi)
Elevation	181 m (594 ft)
Population
• Total	912
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	982 61
Area code	+421 47
Car plate	RA
Website	www.obecgemer.sk

Gemer (German: (rare) Gömer, Gemer; Hungarian: Sajógömör) is a village and municipality in Revúca District in the Banská Bystrica Region of Slovakia.

Etymology

János Melich associated Gemer with the Kyrgyz personal name Kemirbaj and old Turkish place name Kömürtag. This theory was adopted also by Lájos Kiss who explains the name from old Turkic kömür: coal. However, Šimon Ondruš deemed the toponym is of slavic origin, a cognate of Slovak homoľa, altimately from Proto Slavic stem(*gom-ol-), which originally meant a lump and afterwards metaphorically a hill.

History

Important Bronze Age finds have been made in the village. In historical records, the village was first mentioned in 1198 as Gomur (1216 Gumur, 1289 Gemer) as a settlement below the much older Gemer Castle (which was originally a Slavic fortified settlement). The castle was the capital of Gemer and control point of all the ways for Spiš County.

The settlement below the castle was a royal dominion and in the 14th century it became the capital of Gemer. It was besieged by the Bohemian condottiere Jiskra in the 15th century and it was pillaged by Turks in the 16th century. From 1938 to 1945 it belonged to Hungary under the First Vienna Award.

People

• Czinka Panna

Other residents

• Samo Chalupka
• István Gyöngyösi
• Ján Kalinčiak
• Janko Kráľ
• Janko Matúška
• Francis II Rákóczi
• Sándor Rudnay
• Sándor Petőfi
• Pavel Jozef Šafárik
• Jonáš Záborský

Genealogical resources

The records for genealogical research are available at the state archive "Statny Archiv in Banska Bystrica, Slovakia"

• Roman Catholic church records (births/marriages/deaths): 1733-1896 (parish B)
• Lutheran church records (births/marriages/deaths): 1730-1895 (parish A)
• Reformated church records (births/marriages/deaths): 1707-1870 (parish B)

See also

• List of municipalities and towns in Slovakia

References

1. "Hustota obyvateľstva - obce [om7014rr_ukaz: Rozloha (Štvorcový meter)]". www.statistics.sk (in Slovak). Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic. 2022-03-31. Retrieved 2022-03-31.
2. ^ "Základná charakteristika". www.statistics.sk (in Slovak). Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic. 2015-04-17. Retrieved 2022-03-31.
3. "Počet obyvateľov podľa pohlavia - obce (ročne)". www.statistics.sk (in Slovak). Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic. 2022-03-31. Retrieved 2022-03-31.
4. Kiss, Lajos (1978). Földrajzi nevek etimológiai szótára (in Hungarian). Budapest: Akadémiai. p. 244.
5. Ondruš, Šimon. Odtajnené trezory 2. Martin: Matica Slovenská (2002). ISBN 80-7090-659-6

External links

• https://web.archive.org/web/20080111223415/http://www.statistics.sk/mosmis/eng/run.html
• Surnames of living people in Gemer

v t e Municipalities of Revúca District
Jelšava Revúca Tornaľa Držkovce Gemer Gemerská Ves Gemerské Teplice Gemerský Sad Hrlica Hucín Chvalová Chyžné Kameňany Leváre Levkuška Licince Lubeník Magnezitovce Mokrá Lúka Muráň Muránska Dlhá Lúka Muránska Huta Muránska Lehota Muránska Zdychava Nandraž Otročok Ploské Polina Prihradzany Rákoš Rašice Ratková Ratkovské Bystré Revúcka Lehota Rybník Sása Sirk Skerešovo Šivetice Turčok Višňové Žiar

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