Sečovce

• Name — Sečovce • Other Name — Gálszécs • Settlement Type — Municipality • Subdivision Type1 — Region • Subdivision Name1 — Košice Region • Subdivision Type2 — District • Subdivision Name2 — Trebišov District • Leader Title — Mayor • Established Title — First mentioned • Established Date — 1255 • Elevation M — 136 • Postal Code Type — Postal code • Postal Code — 780 1 • Area Code — +421 56 • Registration Plate — TV • Website — https: www.secovce.sk/

• Illustration — Roman Catholic Church of The Assumption The town was first mentioned in year 1255 on the list of king Béla IV of Hungary. In 1494, a Roman Catholic church was built in the Gothic architecture style. Since the 15th century, there was gradual development of trade, including markets with shoemakers, saddlers, potters and furriers. The first post-office was opened in 1783, telegraph office in 1868, telephone office in 1890, train station in 1904, and museum in 1954, which was moved to Trebišov in 1981.

It has a population of people (31 December).

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A few factories reside in and around Sečovce - Palma Agro (vegetable oils), Silometal (metal silos and containers), Sonap (clothing), Valter (socks), Lesy SR (wood processing), and Simkovic-Protektor s.r.o./SPR Retreading Solutions (tire retreads)

• Štefan Sečovský (16th century), evangelical preacher, writer, composer, pedagogue. His original Hungarian name was Galszecsi Istvan. • Štefan Gáboréczy (16th century), evangelical writer • Andrej Fáy (1786 – 1864), lawyer, businessman, politician, writer, playwright • Emery Roth (1871 – 1948), architect • Jozef Švagrovský (1921 – 1985), paleontologist, university professor • Gejza Šimanský (1924 – 2007), football player • Stano Bubán (1961), painter, associate professor, Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava • Ingrid Timková (1967), actress and director • Adolf Schwarz (1836), Hungarian-Jewish chess player