Porúbka ( hu, Kisortovány) is a
village and
municipality in
Humenné District 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 north-east
Slovakia.
History
In
historical records the
village was first mentioned in 1451. Before the establishment of independent
Czechoslovakia in 1918, Porúbka was part of
Zemplén County within the
Kingdom of Hungary. From 1939 to 1944, 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 26 November 1944, the
Red Army dislodged the
Wehrmacht from Porúbka and it was once again part of Czechoslovakia.
Geography
The
municipality lies at an
altitude of 310 metres and covers an
area of 4.329 km².
It has a
population of about 280 people.
External links
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* http://www.statistics.sk/mosmis/eng/run.html
Villages and municipalities in Humenné District
Zemplín (region)
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