Bytča
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Bytča is a town in northwestern Slovakia. It is located at the Váh river near the cities of Žilina and Považská Bystrica. Population: 12 136 (1991). Car registration plate: BY.
The town arose in 1946 by a merge of the settlements Malá Bytča (including Beňov and Mikšová), Veľká Bytča and Hliník nad Váhom. The first written reference to the town's main part Veľká Bytča dates from 1234. The settlement got its town charter in 1378. It was the seat of a feudal dominion and later a town with many craftsmen.
It features a famous castle built as a water castle in the 13th century and rebuilt in the 16th century in Renaissance style. The town also houses the Wedding Palace from 1601, which is the only building of this kind in Slovakia, Renaissance, Baroque and Classical burger houses, an archive, and a museum (in the Wedding Palace).
Today, the town is home to machine (Kinex), textile, wood processing (sports equipment), and food (brewery) industries.
City parts (year of merge in brackets):
- Beňov (c. 1899 with Malá Bytča)
- Hliník nad Váhom (1946)
- Hrabové (1971)
- Malá Bytča (1946)
- Mikšová (1907 with Malá Bytča)
- Pšurnovice (1971)
- Veľká Bytča (1946; Hungarian: Nagybiccse, German: Grossbitsch)
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