Dobšiná

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Dobšiná (German: Dobschau; Hungarian: Dobsina; Latin: Dobsinium) is a town in the Slovak Ore Mountains of Slovakia, on the Slaná river, northwest of Košice.

Pop. 5 331 (2002). It is situated between Revúcka vrchovina and Volovské vrchy in the Carpathians, and lies to the south of the beautiful Stratená valley, watered by the river Hnilec, and enclosed on all sides by mountains. The well-known ice cave Dobšiná Ice Cave (discovered in 1870) can be found in that valley and belongs to the territory of the village.

The first written reference to the settlement stems from 1326; the text mentions that German mining experts were settled here. It received a town charter in 1417. The town was a center of mining (gold, silver, nikel, later iron, cobalt, cooper, mercury etc.) and iron processing in the past. In the vicinity are mines of various materials, some of them being very ancient.

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