Havka ( hu, Hóka, german: Haffke, rue, Гавка) is a
village
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and
municipality
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The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...
in
Kežmarok District
Kežmarok District (Slovak: ''okres Kežmarok'') is a district in
the Prešov Region of eastern Slovakia.
Its seat, cultural and economic center is Kežmarok, the traditional center of the historic Spiš region. The Kežmarok district was establi ...
in the
Prešov Region
The Prešov Region, also Priashiv Region ( sk, Prešovský kraj, ; hu, Eperjesi kerület; uk, Пряшівський край) is one of the eight Slovak administrative regions and consists of 13 districts (okresy) and 666 municipalities, 23 o ...
of northern
Slovakia
Slovakia (; sk, Slovensko ), officially the Slovak Republic ( sk, Slovenská republika, links=no ), is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east, Hungary to the south, Austria to the s ...
.
History
In historical records the village was first mentioned in 1337. The village's history is tied in with that of the nearby
Červený Kláštor
Červený Kláštor () is a small village and municipality in the far north Kežmarok District in the Prešov Region of northern Slovakia, near the Polish border, in the Zamagurie region.
History
A Camaldolese monastery was established on this ...
Carthusian
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Monastery. More recently, in the nineteenth century, a number of
Szepes County
Szepes ( sk, Spiš; la, Scepusium, pl, Spisz, german: link=no, Zips) was an administrative county of the Kingdom of Hungary, called Scepusium before the late 19th century. Its territory today lies in northeastern Slovakia, with a very small are ...
within the
Kingdom of Hungary
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. From 1939 to 1945, it was part of the
Slovak Republic
Slovakia (; sk, Slovensko ), officially the Slovak Republic ( sk, Slovenská republika, links=no ), is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east, Hungary to the south, Austria to the s ...
. On 27 January 1945, the
Red Army
The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (Russian: Рабо́че-крестья́нская Кра́сная армия),) often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and, after ...
dislodged the
Wehrmacht
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municipality
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The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...
lies at an
altitude
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of 633 metres and covers an
area
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A shape or figure is a graphics, graphical representation of an obje ...
of 6.013 km2.
It has a
population
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