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{{short description|Village in Trenčín region of Slovakia}}
[[Image:01 Selec okres TN.JPG|thumb|right|View of the municipality from the south.]]
'''Selec'''  ({{lang-hu| Szelec}}) is a [[village]] and [[municipality]] in [[Trenčín District]] in the [[Trenčín Region]] of north-western [[Slovakia]].

==History==
The [[village]] was first mentioned in [[history|historical records]] of 1439. During [[World War II]], on the December 3, 1944, German troops invaded the village and arrested 56 men from the village for help to partisans. 50 from them have been later taken to the concentration camps where 45 of them died.

==Geography==
The [[municipality]] lies at an [[altitude]] of 319 metres and covers an [[area]] of 24.802&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup>. It has a [[population]] of about 957 people. From a geomorphological point of view of the village lies in [[Fatra-Tatra Area]] in the northern part of the [[Považský Inovec|Považský Inovec Mts.]]

==External links==
*http://www.statistics.sk/mosmis/eng/run.html

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{{Coord|48|47|N|17|59|E|region:SK_type:city|display=title}}

[[Category:Villages and municipalities in Trenčín District]]


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