Nemšová

Nemšová (Former name, before 1902: Nemsova Nemsó) is a town in the Trenčín District, Trenčín Region in northwestern Slovakia.

Geography
It is located in the Ilava Basin on the Váh and Vlára rivers at the foothills of the White Carpathians. It is 15 km from Trenčín and 10 km from the Czech border.

History
The first written record about Nemšová was in 1246. The present-day town exists since 1989, when it was created by merger of the villages of Nemšová, Ľuborča, Kľúčové and Trenčianska Závada.

Demographics
According to the 2001 census, the town had 6,136 inhabitants. 98.1% of inhabitants were Slovaks, 1.1% Czechs and 0.1% Moravians. The religious makeup was 92.9% Roman Catholics, 4.6% people with no religious affiliation, and 0.6% Lutherans.