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By Branislav Chovan
26. Feb 2007 at 0:00
HISTORY TALKS...
Lučenec
THIS postcard shows how the centre of Lučenec, the biggest and only genuine town of the Novohrad region, looked in 1921. Towns were much smaller than nowadays, and Lučenec had attained that status by the 18th century, with just 2,711 inhabitants.
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