from 1261 Salt at ŠovárSoľ v Šovári

Six kilometres south of the square, where the district of Solivar is today, salt water comes up out of the ground. The place is first recorded in 1261, when the young prince Stephen — the future King Stephen V — granted an estate at Šovár, land with a church on it. Salt here was not a seasoning but a strategic good: it kept meat through the winter, it was taxed, and in the kingdom of Hungary it belonged to the king. Prešov grew up beside a royal salt works, and the name of the district still says exactly what was done there — soľ is salt, and Solivar is the place where salt was boiled.Šesť kilometrov na juh od námestia, tam, kde je dnes mestská časť Solivar, vyviera zo zeme slaná voda. Miesto je prvý raz doložené v roku 1261, keď mladý kráľovič Štefan — neskorší kráľ Štefan V. — daroval majetok v Šovári, zem s kostolom. Soľ tu nebola korenie, ale strategický tovar: udržala mäso cez zimu, zdaňovala sa a v Uhorskom kráľovstve patrila kráľovi. Prešov teda vyrastal vedľa kráľovskej soľnej prevádzky a názov mestskej časti dodnes hovorí, čo sa tam robilo — soľ sa tam varila, a preto Solivar.