Matchbox label made in Czechoslovakia, 1955. The text on the label reads:”Banska Bystrica 700 years”.
Banska Bystrica is a city in central Slovakia.
During World War II, Banska Bystrica became the center of anti-Nazi opposition in Slovakia when the Slovak National Uprising, one of the largest anti-Nazi resistance events in Europe, was launched from the city on 29 August 1944. The insurgents were defeated on 27 October, and Banska Bystrica was briefly occupied by the German forces before it was liberated by Soviet and Romanian troops on 26 March 1945. After the war, Banska Bystrica became the administrative, economic, and cultural hub of central Slovakia. It has been a university town since the 1950s.