Hniezdne (German: Kniesen, Hungarian: Gnézda) is a village and municipality in Stará Ľubovňa District in the Prešov Region of northern Slovakia. The name is derived from Slavic gnězdo - a nest (modern Polish: gniazdo, modern Slovak: hniezdo; after the replacement of initial Proto-Slavic g > h), but the first mention is of German origin Knysen (1286). The Slovak name before 1948 was Gňazdá. The town belonged to a German language island. The German population was expelled in 1945. In historical records the village was first mentioned in 1286. More information...
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