Spišská Stará Ves [SEP] located in the administrative territorial entity
Spišská Stará Ves
Spišská Stará Ves (; ; ; ) is a small town and urban municipality in Kežmarok District in the Prešov Region of north Slovakia.
History.
In historical records the town was first mentioned in 1272.
Geography.
The town and municipality lies at an altitude of 505 metres and covers an area of . It has a population of about 2,200 people. Spišská Stará Ves is the centre of Zamagurie region and is close to the Dunajec River.
Demographics.
According to the 2001 census
the modern Košice Region and Prešov Region and is covered approximately by the following six administrative districts: Poprad, Kežmarok, Stará Ľubovňa, Spišská Nová Ves, Levoča and Gelnica, except for the eastern half of the Stará Ľubovňa District that had been within Saris county and three villages of the Poprad district (Štrba including Tatranská Štrba, Štrbské Pleso and Liptovská Teplička from Liptov county.)
The present population of the Spiš region is about 320,000; almost half the population lives in towns, the largest of which are Poprad (55,000