Valaská Belá

Valaská Belá
Valaská Belá
Village
	Valaská Belá Location of Valaská Belá in the Trenčín Region Valaská Belá Location of Valaská Belá in Slovakia
	Coordinates: 48°53′N 18°24′E / 48.883°N 18.400°E
Country	Slovakia
Region	Trenčín
District	Prievidza
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)

Valaská Belá (Hungarian: Bélapataka) is a village and municipality in Prievidza District in the Trenčín Region of western Slovakia.^[1]

History[edit]

In historical records the village was first mentioned in 1324.^{[citation needed]}

Geography[edit]

The municipality lies at an altitude of 482 metres and covers an area of 64,774 km².^{[citation needed]} It has a population of about 2327 people.^{[citation needed]}

Religion[edit]

Churches in the village include the wooden Saint Michal church.^{[citation needed]} Local priest Juraj Gábor built the first single-aisle brick church^{[citation needed]} in 1737. At the end of the 18th century, the parishioners built the brick chapel. The present church is from the year 1800. Primarily it was a longitudinal single-aisle church with one tower ornamented with prissian^{[check spelling]} paintings.^{[citation needed]} In 1929, two aisles were added, ornamented similarly to the main aisle. In 1944, the interior was painted by Štefan Enhoff.^{[citation needed]}

References[edit]

^ SÜLE, Peter; SÜLE, Peter, Jr. Encyclopedia of Towns and Villages of Slovakia. Lučenec : PS-LINE, 2005. 960 p. ISBN 80-969388-8-6. P. 249.

External links[edit]

http://www.statistics.sk/mosmis/eng/run.html Archived 2007-11-16 at the Wayback Machine
Valaská Belá homepage

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[1] SÜLE, Peter; SÜLE, Peter, Jr. Encyclopedia of Towns and Villages of Slovakia. Lučenec : PS-LINE, 2005. 960 p. ISBN 80-969388-8-6. P. 249.

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