Partizánske

Partizánske is an industrial city of 22,000 people (2018) in Western Slovakia. It was founded in 1938 to provide housing for workers in a Bata shoe factory.

Understand
Partizánske, formerly called Baťovany, is one of the famous serial cities built and financed by Jan Antonín Baťa in Slovakia, Czech Republic, Netherlands, Great Britain, and more than a dozen other countries. The name change from Baťovany was done to Partizánske was to commemorate the place where the Slovak Uprising began and where more than 250 Baťa residents lost their lives defending the city from the Waffen SS in 1944.

History
The city is in the upper part of the valley of Nitra River in a beautiful and interesting regions of Slovakia. Partizánske is a shoemaking metropolis, also called the entrance gate of upper Nitra's region. Strážovské Mountains and Vtáčnik Massif surround the city. Partizánske has plenty of parks, flowered streets, and trees.

The city was established in 1938-1939 by Jan Antonín Baťa who founded a shoemaking factory and town originally called Baťovany. At its pre-World War II peak, Baťa became one of the best known brands of shoes, tires and other manufactured goods.

Partizánske's symbol is a blazon with a shoe between two roses and a seal of Šimonovany, the historical part of the town. The city also has its own flag and seal.

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