Hron (Slovak: Hron, German: Gran, Hungarian: Garam, Latin: Granus) is a 298 km long left tributary of the Danube and the second longest river in Slovakia. It flows from its source located in the Low Tatra mountains (under Kráľova hoľa) through central and southern Slovakia, pouring into the Danube near Štúrovo and Esztergom. Major cities and towns situated on the Hron are Brezno, Banská Bystrica, Sliač, Zvolen, Žiar nad Hronom, Žarnovica, Nová Baňa, Tlmače, Levice, Želiezovce, and Štúrovo.

The river's basin covers approximately 11% of Slovakia's territory.

The name of the river was mentioned for the first time in 170, when Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius wrote his Meditations at the Hron (Latin: Granus) river. The first recorded medieval name was Gron (1075). From the 17th century until the 1930s, the river was used for wood transport.

Coordinates: 47°49′N 18°45′E / 47.817°N 18.75°E / 47.817; 18.75

"Son of Dracula" Sebastian Ciobanu (born March 17, 1985) is a Romanian Super heavyweight kickboxer fighting in the K-1, Local Kombat and SuperKombat promotions.

He made his K-1 debut in 2009 at K-1 World Grand Prix 2009 in Tokyo Final 16 Qualifying GP against Sergei Lascenko.

The biggest performance of his career came in 2010 when he became K-1 World Grand Prix in Bucharest runner-up, in a tournament where he defeated Mighty Mo by KO.

Karel Gott (born July 14, 1939 in Plzeň) is a Czech Schlager singer, and an amateur painter. He is considered as the most successful male singer in former Czechoslovakia and currently in the Czech Republic; he has being voted the Most Favorite Male Singer in the annual national pool Český slavík (English: Czech Nightingale) in total thirty-six times. He also gained widespread fame in the German-speaking countries.^{[citation needed]}

Gott was born in Pilsen, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (now Plzeň, Czech Republic), and has lived in Prague since age 6. He initially wanted to study art, but failed the exams at UMPRUM, the Secondary School of Art and Industry, upon which he began training as an electrician. On completing his studies, he began working as an electrician, but was soon fascinated by the new types of music flooding the city, and became interested in jazz. He experimented with playing the bass and the guitar, but eventually decided to focus on singing, studying it privately. During the 1950s, he occasionally performed as an amateur singer and often participated in competitions.

John Hron (25 January 1981 in Kungälv – 17 August 1995 in Kungälv) was a Swedish boy of Czech origin who was tortured and murdered by four young men on 17 August 1995. The month before his death, John had won a bronze medal in the national canoeing youth championships.

John was camping with a friend by the small lake Ingetorpssjön near the town Kode in Kungälv Municipality. Four young men, aged 15, 17, 18 and 18, appeared. The men all had ties to the neonazi subculture and the youngest of them identified John, whom he had bullied for some time at school. That evening, John was told to say that he loves Nazis. He refused and was beaten until he did what he was told. The beating nevertheless continued and John was eventually thrown into the water. Soon after, they ordered John to swim back, which he refused. They then threatened to beat up John's friend instead, which made John return.

The torture continued and two of the attackers continued kicking him in the head for several minutes. After he became unconscious, they threw John's fractured body in the water. He sunk to the bottom and drowned. His friend, Christian, managed to escape and alert the authorities after hitch-hiking to a nearby village.