Čadca (; until 1918 Čatca, Czača, hu, Csaca, pl, Czadca) is a district town in northern

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, near the border with

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and the

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Etymology

The name is derived from a word ''čad'' (smoke, soot;

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: ''čadъ'', Slovak/

Czech Czech may refer to: * Anything from or related to the Czech Republic, a country in Europe ** Czech language ** Czechs, the people of the area ** Czech culture ** Czech cuisine * One of three mythical brothers, Lech, Czech, and Rus' Places *Czech, ...

: ''čad'',

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: ''czad'' ). The form ''Čadca'' is a toponymic appellative. The name was probably motivated by the burning glades.

Geography

It is located south of the

Jablunkov Pass Jablunkov Pass ( cs, , pl, ) is a mountain pass in the Western Beskids at above sea level. It is located in the municipality of Mosty u Jablunkova in the Czech Republic, near the border with Poland and Slovakia. Geography The pass separa ...

, surrounded by the

Javorníky The Maple Mountains, Javornik Mountains, or Javorniks (Czech and Slovak: ''Javorníky'') are a mountain range of the Slovak-Moravian Carpathians that forms part of the border between the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Its highest point is Veľk� ...

Kysucké Beskydy The Kysucké Beskydy is a set of mountain ranges in the Kysuce region of northern Slovakia. Slovaks consider the mountains to belong to the Central Beskids, of the Outer Western Carpathians, while Poles classify them as part of the Western Bes ...

and Turzovská vrchovina mountain ranges. It lies in the valley of the

Kysuca The Kysuca ( hu, Kiszuca) is a river in northern Slovakia. It is a right tributary to the Váh. The river gives name to the informal Kysuce region. It is long and its basin size is . Its source is near the village of Makov Makov ( hu, Tr ...

river, around north of

Žilina Žilina (; hu, Zsolna, ; german: Sillein, or ; pl, Żylina , names in other languages) is a city in north-western Slovakia, around from the capital Bratislava, close to both the Czech and Polish borders. It is the fourth largest city of Sl ...

and is part of the historic region of

Kysuce Kysuce is a traditional informal name of a region in north-western Slovakia, situated around the Kysuca river and bordering the Orava region in the east, Poland in the north and the Czech Republic in the west. It consists of two districts: Čadca ...

. A

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minority lives in the surroundings.

History

The town was established in the 17th century; the first written reference dates back to 1565 as ''Tzaczcka''. The town charter was granted in 1778.

Demographics

According to the 2010

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, the town had 24,959 inhabitants with 2.2%

and 0.4%

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. The religious make-up was 82.97%

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and 0.36%

Lutherans Lutheranism is one of the largest branches of Protestantism, identifying primarily with the theology of Martin Luther, the 16th-century German monk and Protestant Reformers, reformer whose efforts to reform the theology and practice of the Cathol ...

; most of others stated no religious affiliation.

History

One of the world's largest (and last) producers of

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JJ Electronic JJ Electronic, s.r.o is a Slovak electronic component manufacturer, and one of the world's remaining producers of vacuum tubes. It is based in Čadca, in the Kysuce region of Slovakia. Most of its products are audio receiving tubes, mainly used ...

has a factory in Čadca.

Transport

Čadca railway station Čadca railway station ( sk, Železničná stanica Čadca) is the central station, main station serving the Municipalities of Slovakia, municipality and Čadca District, district town of Čadca, in the Žilina Region, northern Slovakia. Opened in ...

is the town's

main station Central stations or central railway stations emerged in the second half of the nineteenth century as railway stations that had initially been built on the edge of city centres were enveloped by urban expansion and became an integral part of the ...

. It forms part of the cross-border Žilina–Čadca–Svrčinovec zastávka–Mosty u Jablunkova railway (to the Czech Republic), and is also a

junction station ''Junction station'' usually refers to a railway station situated on or close to a junction where lines to several destinations diverge. The usual minimum is three incoming lines. At a station with platforms running from left to right, the minimum ...

for two other lines, one of them also cross-border (to Poland). The station offers services to several destinations in the two cross-border countries. For the Czech Republic, there are many trains to

Ostrava Ostrava (; pl, Ostrawa; german: Ostrau ) is a city in the north-east of the Czech Republic, and the capital of the Moravian-Silesian Region. It has about 280,000 inhabitants. It lies from the border with Poland, at the confluences of four ri ...

, Bohumin or

Prague Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a temperate ...

, operated by trains of the

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and

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companies, and to Poland, there are trains towards

Zwardoń Zwardoń is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Rajcza, within Żywiec County, Silesian Voivodeship, in the Żywiec Beskids mountain range in southern Poland, on the border with Slovakia. It lies approximately west of Rajcza, sou ...

Notable people

Ľubomír Michalík, footballer (1983-)

Twin towns — sister cities

Čadca is

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with: *

Valašské Meziříčí Valašské Meziříčí (; german: Wallachisch Meseritsch) is a town in Vsetín District in the Zlín Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 22,000 inhabitants. The historic town centre is well preserved and is protected by law as an urban mon ...

, Czech Republic *

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, Poland *

Żywiec Żywiec () (german: Saybusch) is a town in southern Poland with 31,194 inhabitants (2019). Between 1975 and 1998, it was located within the Bielsko-Biała Voivodeship, but has since become part of the Silesian Voivodeship.It is the capital of � ...

, Poland

Etymology

Geography

History

Demographics

History

Transport

Notable people

Twin towns — sister cities

See also