Partizánske

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| nickname = Baťovka

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| subdivision_name2 = Trenčín

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| leader_title = Mayor

| leader_name = PaedDr. Jozef Božik, PhD.

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| elevation_m = 190{{Cite web |url=http://datacube.statistics.sk/#!/view/sk/VBD_SK_WIN/om5001rr/v_om5001rr_00_00_00_sk |title=Základná charakteristika |language=sk |date=17 April 2015 |website=www.statistics.sk |publisher= Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic|access-date=31 March 2022}}

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| postal_code = 958 01

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| area_code = +421 38

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| website = [https://www.partizanske.sk www.partizanske.sk]

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|area_note= ({{Tooltip|2022|2022-06-31/2022-07-01}})

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Partizánske ({{IPA|sk|ˈpartizaːnske|-|Sk-Partizanske.ogg}}, meaning "partisan town", formerly: Šimonovany, from 1948: Baťovany, {{langx|hu|Simony}}) is a town in Trenčín Region, Slovakia.

Geography

Partizánske is located in the northern part of the Danubian Hills around {{convert|55|km|2|abbr=on}} from Nitra and {{convert|131|km|2|abbr=on}} from the capital Bratislava, at the confluence of the Nitra and Nitrica rivers, near the Tribeč mountains. The old village of Veľké Bielice is now part of Partizánske.

History

Partizánske is a relatively young town. Its history starts in 1938–1939, when Jan Antonín Baťa of Zlín and his powerful network of companies built a shoe factory in the cadastral area of Šimonovany municipality. The newly created settlement for workers carried the name of Baťovany and was part of Šimonovany. With the growth of the factory, so grew the settlement. The whole municipality was renamed to Baťovany in 1948 and given town status. As a sign of recognition of local inhabitants fighting in the Slovak National Uprising, the town was renamed Partizánske on 9 February 1949.{{cite news|title=História mesta Partizánske |url=http://www.partizanske.sk/main.php?id_menu=1629&firmy_slovenska_flag=0 |website=partizanske.sk | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070213185431/http://www.partizanske.sk/main.php?id_menu=1629&firmy_slovenska_flag=0 |access-date=28 August 2023 | archive-date=13 February 2007 |language=sk |trans-title=History of the town of Partizánske}}

The factory was renamed by communists to Závody 29. augusta (29 August works), and it produced 30 million pairs of shoes and employed around 10,000 people.{{cite news|url=http://www.slovakspectator.sk/clanok.asp?cl=28590 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130418140142/http://www.slovakspectator.sk/clanok.asp?cl=28590 |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2013 |title=Shoemaking: A troubled business|work=The Slovak Spectator|date=6 August 2007|author=Michaela Stanková|access-date=23 February 2008}} However, after a failed privatisation in the 1990s, only a fraction is left now.{{Citation needed|date=August 2023}}

Demographics

{{historical population|1970|14539|1980|21639|1991|25099|2001|24907|2011|24115|2021|21439|align=right|cols=1|source=Censuses{{cite web |title=Statistical lexikon of municipalities 1970-2011|url=https://slovak.statistics.sk/wps/wcm/connect/cd33d897-7314-41d0-a12b-a95e537d7a39/Statisticky_lexikon_obci_Slovenskej_republiky_2011.pdf?MOD=AJPERES&CVID=kRHTpsy&CVID=kRHTpsy&CVID=kRHTpsy&CVID=kRHTpsy&CVID=kRHTpsy&CVID=kRHTpsy&CVID=kRHTpsy&CVID=kRHTpsy&CVID=kRHTpsy&CVID=kRHTpsy&CVID=kRHTpsy&CVID=kRHTpsy&CVID=kRHTpsy&CVID=kRHTpsy&CVID=kRHTpsy&CVID=kRHTpsy|language=sk}}{{cite web |title=Census 2021 - Population - Basic results|url=https://www.scitanie.sk/obyvatelia/zakladne-vysledky/pocet-obyvatelov/|publisher=Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic|date=2021-01-01}}}}According to the 2001 census, the town had 24,907 inhabitants. 97.71% of inhabitants were Slovaks, 0.69% Czechs and 0.35% Roma.{{cite web | title = Municipal Statistics | publisher = Statistical Office of the Slovak republic | url = http://www.statistics.sk/mosmis/eng/run.html | access-date = 13 December 2007 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071116010355/http://www.statistics.sk/mosmis/eng/run.html |archive-date = 16 November 2007}} The religious makeup was 73.88% Roman Catholics, 18.07% people with no religious affiliation, and 2.95% Lutherans.

Sport

The association football team ŠK Slovan Šimonovany play at the stadium in the east of the town, off the Nemocničná cesta road.{{cite web |url=https://novinytempo.sk/wp-content/uploads/bsk-pdf-manager/2019/05/27-28-2014.pdf |title=Sport |website=Novinytempo |access-date=30 March 2024}} The stadium was a former venue for motorcycle speedway from 1958 to 1965 and hosted a final round of the Czechoslovak Individual Speedway Championship in 1961 and 1962.{{cite web |url=http://www.historyspeedway.nstrefa.pl/indmczechoslowacji.php|title=Individual Czechoslovak Championship |website=Historia Sportu Zuzlowego|access-date=30 March 2024}}

Another football team FK Tempo Partizánske play at the Rudolfa Jašíka stadium in the south of the town, which is adjacent to and on the right of the ice hockey stadium (Zimný štadión).

Notable natives and residents

Miroslav, Jaroslav, Peter and Pavol Dvorský, four brothers who are all successful opera singers
Ján Fabo (born 1963), sport shooter
Petra Popluhárová (born 1988), handball player

Twin towns – sister cities

Partizánske is twinned with:{{cite web |title=Mesto Partizánske bude mať nových cezhraničných partnerov|url=https://www.partizanske.sk/?program=51&module_action__0__id_ci=136447|publisher=Partizánske|language=sk|access-date=3 September 2019}}