Word: bystrica
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...Balkans began to crack, the Germans prepared to move into Slovakia in force, occupy road and railway lines needed for their troops. At the end of August the Slovaks rose, hauled out arms from their hiding places, seized control of central Slovakia and the industrial town of Banska Bystrica (80 miles north of Budapest...