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{{other uses|SVIT (disambiguation)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2023}} {{Infobox Slovak place | name = Svit | other_name = | settlement_type = [[List of municipalities and towns in Slovakia|Municipality]]  | image_skyline = Svit (Slovakia).JPG | image_caption = General view of the town | image_flag = Svit-poprad-flag.svg | image_shield = Coat of Arms of Svit.svg  | subdivision_type1 = [[Regions of Slovakia|Region]] | subdivision_name1 = {{flag|Prešov Region}} | subdivision_type2 = [[Districts of Slovakia|District]] | subdivision_name2 = [[Poprad District]]  | pushpin_map = Slovakia Prešov Region#Slovakia | pushpin_relief = 1 | pushpin_map_caption = Location of Svit in the [[Prešov Region]]##Location of Svit in [[Slovakia]] | coordinates = {{coord|49.07|N|20.19|E|region:SK|display=inline,title}}  | leader_title = Mayor | leader_name = Ing. Dáša Vojsovičová | leader_party =  | established_title = First mentioned | established_date = 1946  | elevation_footnotes = <ref name="base_info">{{Cite web |url=http://datacube.statistics.sk/#!/view/sk/VBD_SK_WIN/om5001rr/v_om5001rr_00_00_00_sk |title=Základná charakteristika |language=sk |date=2015-04-17 |website=www.statistics.sk |publisher= Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic|access-date=2022-03-31}}</ref> | elevation_m = 720  | postal_code_type = Postal code | postal_code = 592 1<ref name="base_info"/> | area_code = +421 52<ref name="base_info"/> |registration_plate = PP  | website = {{URL|https://www.svit.sk/}} }}

'''Svit''' ({{Audio|Svit (Slovak pronunciation).ogg|pronunciation}}) is a small [[town]] in [[Poprad District]] in the [[Prešov Region]] in northern [[Slovakia]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic|url=http://portal.statistics.sk/files/obce-pohl-vek.pdf|work=Výsledky SODB 2011|publisher=Štatistický úrad SR|accessdate=9 August 2012}}</ref> It lies {{convert|8|km|0|abbr=on}} west of the city of [[Poprad]], at the foothills of the [[High Tatras]].

== Geography == {{Slovak municipality/geo|720|<ref name="base_info"/>}}

==History== {{Unreferenced section|date=August 2023}}

Svit is one of the youngest Slovak towns. It was established in 1934 by business industrialist [[Jan Antonín Baťa]] of [[Zlín]], [[Czechoslovakia]] (now [[Czech Republic]]) through his organization Baťa a.s., Zlin in accordance with his policy of setting up villages around the country for his workers. As a boy, Jan Baťa saw the poverty and sickness of his fellow countrymen. He wanted to change this by creating cities full of the most modern factories and filled with the best (and happiest) workers in Europe. The Baťa System under Jan's administration brought prosperity first to [[Moravia]], and later [[Slovakia]] and [[Bohemia]]. It was Jan's policy for full employment that drove him to create each Baťa town for a different purpose: Shoes, Rubber and Tires, Textiles, Airplanes, Chemicals, Plastics, Media, Stockings, Leather, and Machinery.

When the [[World War II]] came, Jan Baťa's policy was to secretly fund the [[Czechoslovak government-in-exile]], to supply the Czech Army with shoes and clothing and to secretly fund the [[Slovak National Uprising]] that started at Baťovany (now [[Partizánske]]) on 29 August 1944. Jan Baťa represented Czech/Slovak freedom and prosperity.

Svit is short for "'''S'''lovenské '''vi'''zkózové '''t'''ovárne" (in English ''Slovak Viscose Works''). Also, the word ''svit'' means 'shine' in Slovak and Ukrainian (related to Slovak ''úsvit'', 'dawn'). Svit is the smallest town in Slovakia (4.5 km²) in terms of area, with a population of 7,790.

== Population == {{historical population|1970|7291|1980|8048|1991|7485|2001|7445|2011|7608|2021|7743|align=right|cols=1|source=Censuses<ref>{{cite web |title=Statistical lexikon of municipalities 1970-2011|url=https://slovak.statistics.sk/wps/wcm/connect/cd33d897-7314-41d0-a12b-a95e537d7a39/Statisticky_lexikon_obci_Slovenskej_republiky_2011.pdf?MOD=AJPERES&CVID=kRHTpsy&CVID=kRHTpsy&CVID=kRHTpsy&CVID=kRHTpsy&CVID=kRHTpsy&CVID=kRHTpsy&CVID=kRHTpsy&CVID=kRHTpsy&CVID=kRHTpsy&CVID=kRHTpsy&CVID=kRHTpsy&CVID=kRHTpsy&CVID=kRHTpsy&CVID=kRHTpsy&CVID=kRHTpsy&CVID=kRHTpsy|language=sk}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Census 2021 - Population - Basic results|url=https://www.scitanie.sk/obyvatelia/zakladne-vysledky/pocet-obyvatelov/|publisher=Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic|date=2021-01-01}}</ref>}} {{Slovak municipality|pop}}

It has a population of {{Slovak municipality|p}} people (31 December {{Slovak municipality|y}}).{{Slovak municipality|P}}

=== Ethnicity === {{Slovak municipality|etno}}

=== Religion === {{Slovak municipality|relig}}

==Churches== {{Unreferenced section|date=August 2023}} * Roman Catholic Church of St. Joseph * Roman Catholic Church of St. Cyril and Methodius * Greek Catholic Chapel of St. Cyril and Methodius * Lutheran Church

==Sports== The town is home to the professional basketball team [[BK Iskra Svit]], which plays in the [[Slovak Extraliga (basketball)|Slovak Extraliga]].

==Twin towns — sister cities== {{See also|List of twin towns and sister cities in Slovakia}}

Svit is [[Twin towns and sister cities|twinned]] with:<ref>{{cite web |title=Partnerské mestá|url=https://www.svit.sk/mesto/partnerske-mesta/|publisher=Svit|language=sk|accessdate=3 September 2019}}</ref> * {{flagicon|CZE}} [[Česká Třebová]], Czech Republic * {{flagicon|POL}} [[Knurów]], Poland * {{flagicon|SVK}} [[Partizánske]], Slovakia * {{flagicon|ITA}} [[San Lorenzo in Campo]], Italy

==See also== * [[List of company towns]]

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== * {{official|svit.sk}} (in Slovak only)

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