Smolník, Gelnica District
# Smolník, Gelnica District

Smolník (German: Schmöllnitz, Hungarian: Szomolnok) is a village and municipality in the Gelnica District in the Košice Region of eastern Slovakia.

## Etymology

The village got its name after the stream Smolník. Slovak: smola – pitch, smolník – a settlement of people who collected pitch or lived in a forest where the pitch was collected. It belonged to a German language island. The German population was expelled in 1945.

