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Mining town

There's gold in them there hills. Banska Stiavnica was first mined before the turn of the first Millennium (969 AD) and from the 1100s was a major center of mining in the region - at one point it was one of the wealthiest towns in the Hapsburg empire - but that was some time ago

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Uploaded on September 1, 2006
Taken on August 31, 2006