Krupina

Krupina (German: Karpfen, Hungarian: Korpona) is a town in southern central Slovakia. It is part of the Banská Bystrica Region and has 7,812 inhabitants as of 2005. The territory of modern day Krupina was inhabited since the Neolithic, based on archaeological findings from the Bronze Age. The first written reference to the towns river dates back to 1135. The first people to inhabit it were the Slavs-Slovaks. Between the XIIth an XIII-th Century the Germans arrived in Krupina, later between the XVII and XVIII centuries the Madjars (Hungarians). Along with Trnava, Krupina is the oldest town in Slovakia, having received town privileges in 1238. The settlement lied on the route known as "via magna", connecting the Baltic Sea with the...