Palota ( rue, Палота) 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 A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

in the

Medzilaborce District Medzilaborce District (''okres Medzilaborce'') is a district in the Prešov Region of northeastern Slovakia. It is the least populated of Slovakia's 79 districts. Until 1918, the district was part of the county of Kingdom of Hungary of Zemplín. ...

in the Prešov Region of far north-eastern

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 1330.

Geography

The

lies at an

altitude Altitude or height (also sometimes known as depth) is a distance measurement, usually in the vertical or "up" direction, between a reference datum and a point or object. The exact definition and reference datum varies according to the context ...

of and covers an

area Area is the quantity that expresses the extent of a region on the plane or on a curved surface. The area of a plane region or ''plane area'' refers to the area of a shape or planar lamina, while '' surface area'' refers to the area of an ope ...

of . It has a

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of about 190 people.

Gallery

File:Palota-kostely2015d.jpg, Orthodox Church of the Nativity of Our Lady in Palota File:Palota-kostely2015e.jpg, Front facade of the Orthodox Church of the Nativity of Our Lady in Palota File:Palota-kostely2015c.jpg, Orthodox Church of the Nativity of Our Lady and belfry in Palota File:Palota-kostely2015h.jpg, Greek Catholic Church in Palota File:Palota-kostely2015g.jpg, Greek Catholic Church in Palota File:Palota-kostely2015f.jpg, Front facade of Greek Catholic Church in Palota File:Palota cemetery.jpg, WWI military cemetery in Palota File:Palota-kostely2015j.jpg, Funeral home in Palota File:Palota-úřad2015.jpg, Municipal office in Palota File:Palota houses.jpg, A street with newer housing in Palota File:Palota-ulice-podél-potoka2015.jpg, Street with local stream in Palota File:Palota-ulice-podél-potoka2015d.jpg, Old cottage in Palota File:Palota-ulice-podél-potoka2015c.jpg, Traditional wooden barn in Palota File:Palota-památník2015.jpg, Commemorative plaque and T-34 medium tank on public display at local WWII memorial File:Granica radoszyce palota.jpg, The Palota-Radoszyce foot-only border crossing between Poland and Slovakia File:Radoszyce Pass border stone.jpg, 1890s boundary stone at the Palota-Radoszyce foot-only border crossing between Poland and Slovakia

References

External links

* * *http://www.statistics.sk/mosmis/eng/run.html Villages and municipalities in Medzilaborce District {{Prešov-geo-stub