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| ] is a town in Central ] with a population of 20,000. | ] is a town in Central ] with a population of 20,000. | ||
| It is situated below Poľana hill history of typical town Detva has been written down for four centuries. It was created as a village of bondage in a deep-forested area on instruction of an owner of the Vigľaš castle and county of L.Csaky in the year 1638. It had been developed as a large newly cleared land and this character has kept to present-day, in spite of tearing away of a part of newly cleared lands and developing individually - Hriňová, Detvianska Huta, Kriváň. Logging and wood processing, sheep breeding and peasantry had been the main source of bread and butter of the Detvans. The blood of their ancestors - Walachians from the northern and eastern parts of Slovakia and immigrants from surrounding villages was mixed in their blood. Hard living conditions at distant isolated newly cleared lands and self-sufficiency in providing of basic living needs determined formation of original material and spiritual culture of inhabitants and thanks to this Detva has became one of the symbols of modern Slovak nation. | |||
| In ] ] faced the most significant changes in its history brought by a strategic construction and military machinery factory built in town's woods for security purposes. ] as it was then called built ] machinery, aka as ] on the Western European Markets, machinery such as front loaders and Skid Steer Loaders was reaching annual production of 4,000. The factory enlarged the population of Detva from 3,500 to over 12,000, employing over 70% of Detva's population. However, after the ] and the split of ] infamous illegal and untransparent privatization as in the other parts of the Central and Eastern ] took place in Slovakia as well, which eventually hurt the ] economy to its core. The most significant slow-down of such privitization was brought to Detva's PPS factory that had to put its production on halt and downsized its workforce from 8,000 in ] to 1,000 in ]. Nowadays, the City of Detva faces the highest unemployment in the Slovak Republic of around 30%. | |||
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Detva is a town in Central Slovakia with a population of 20,000.
It is situated below Poľana hill history of typical town Detva has been written down for four centuries. It was created as a village of bondage in a deep-forested area on instruction of an owner of the Vigľaš castle and county of L.Csaky in the year 1638. It had been developed as a large newly cleared land and this character has kept to present-day, in spite of tearing away of a part of newly cleared lands and developing individually - Hriňová, Detvianska Huta, Kriváň. Logging and wood processing, sheep breeding and peasantry had been the main source of bread and butter of the Detvans. The blood of their ancestors - Walachians from the northern and eastern parts of Slovakia and immigrants from surrounding villages was mixed in their blood. Hard living conditions at distant isolated newly cleared lands and self-sufficiency in providing of basic living needs determined formation of original material and spiritual culture of inhabitants and thanks to this Detva has became one of the symbols of modern Slovak nation.
In 1955 Detva faced the most significant changes in its history brought by a strategic construction and military machinery factory built in town's woods for security purposes. PPS Detva as it was then called built UNC machinery, aka as Universal on the Western European Markets, machinery such as front loaders and Skid Steer Loaders was reaching annual production of 4,000. The factory enlarged the population of Detva from 3,500 to over 12,000, employing over 70% of Detva's population. However, after the Velvet Revolution and the split of Czechoslovakia infamous illegal and untransparent privatization as in the other parts of the Central and Eastern Europe took place in Slovakia as well, which eventually hurt the Slovak economy to its core. The most significant slow-down of such privitization was brought to Detva's PPS factory that had to put its production on halt and downsized its workforce from 8,000 in 1993 to 1,000 in 2005. Nowadays, the City of Detva faces the highest unemployment in the Slovak Republic of around 30%.