Svit is a small town in Poprad District in the Preà ¡ov Region in northern Slovakia. It lies west of the city of Poprad, at the foothills of the High Tatras.
Svit is one of the youngest Slovak towns. It was established in 1934 by business industrialist Jan AntonÃÂn Baà ¥a of ZlÃÂn, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic) through his organization Baà ¥a a.s., Zlin in accordance with his policy of setting up villages around the country for his workers. As a boy, Jan Baà ¥a 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 Baà ¥a 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 Baà ¥a 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 Baà ¥a'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 Baà ¥ovany (now Partizánske) on 29 August 1944. Jan Baà ¥a represented Czech/Slovak freedom and prosperity.
Svit is short for "Slovenské vizkózové továrne" (in English Slovak Viscose Works). Also, the word svit means 'shine' in Ukrainian. Svit is the smallest town in Slovakia (4.5 kmò), with a population of 7,790.
It has a population ofÃÂ people (31 December ).
The town is home to the professional basketball team BK Iskra Svit, which plays in the Slovak Extraliga.
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