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Legnava ( hu, Hosszúvágás) is a
village
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...
and municipality
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in the Stará Ľubovňa District
Stará Ľubovňa District (''okres Stará Ľubovňa'') is a district in
the Prešov Region of eastern Slovakia.
Until 1918, the district was almost entirely part of the county of Kingdom of Hungary of Spiš, apart from a small area in the
east w ...
, 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 ...
in northern Slovakia
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. It has 146 inhabitants.
History
Early history
The village was founded after 1366, when the then Hungarian kingLouis I Louis I may refer to:
* Louis the Pious, Louis I of France, "the Pious" (778–840), king of France and Holy Roman Emperor
* Louis I, Landgrave of Thuringia (ruled 1123–1140)
* Ludwig I, Count of Württemberg (c. 1098–1158)
* Louis I of Blois ( ...
gave a nobleman Jakub a forested area near the villages of Starina, Orlov, near the Poprad river, to create a village.
Legnava under Hungarian Rule
In the past, the village had tax ports that belonged to the Brežnovica family. In the documents from the 15th and 16th centuries, the tax ports are mentioned sporadically under the name, "Langno", the Hungarian variant of the name, other name included, Lagnó and Hosszúvágás. As well as German names such as Legenau and Langhaw. Documents from 1440 show that the village was named, "Valasi". In 1600, the village consisted of 16serf
Serfdom was the status of many peasants under feudalism, specifically relating to manorialism, and similar systems. It was a condition of debt bondage and indentured servitude with similarities to and differences from slavery, which developed ...
houses. At the end of the 16th century, Legnava was a medium-sized municipality with exclusively serf population mostly of Rusyn
Rusyn may refer to:
* Rusyns, Rusyn people, an East Slavic people
** Pannonian Rusyns, Pannonian Rusyn people, a branch of Rusyn people
** Lemkos, a branch of Rusyn (or Ukrainian) people
** Boykos, a branch of Rusyn (or Ukrainian) people
* Rusyn l ...
origin. In the 17th century, most land around the village belonged to the Semsey family. The land was later given to the Szirmay family in the 18th century. A chapel built by Tomáš Szirmay (1760) is located 1 km from the village.
By the end of the 19th century, the village had 503 inhabitants, the highest number recorded in the village's history. At that time, the inhabitants made their living mainly by hard labour, such as farming and construction.
Present
References
*https://web.archive.org/web/20131019093154/http://legnava.eu/External links
* * {{authority control Villages and municipalities in Stará Ľubovňa District Šariš