Repejov ( rue, Репеїв, hu, Repejő) is a
village
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and
municipality
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in the
Medzilaborce District
Medzilaborce District (''okres Medzilaborce'') is a district in
the Prešov Region of northeastern Slovakia
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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 far north-eastern
Slovakia
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.
History
In
historical records the village was first mentioned in 1454. Before the establishment of independent
Czechoslovakia
, rue, Чеськословеньско, , yi, טשעכאסלאוואקיי,
, common_name = Czechoslovakia
, life_span = 1918–19391945–1992
, p1 = Austria-Hungary
, image_p1 ...
in 1918, it was part of
Zemplén County
Zemplén ( hu, Zemplén, sk, Zemplín, german: Semplin, Semmlin, la, Zemplinum) was an administrative county (Comitatus (Kingdom of Hungary), comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. The northern part of its territory is now situated in eastern Sl ...
within the
Kingdom of Hungary
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.
Geography
The
municipality
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lies at an
altitude
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of 280 metres and covers an
area
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of 18.324 km². It has a
population
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of about 165 people.
References
External links
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*http://www.statistics.sk/mosmis/eng/run.html
Villages and municipalities in Medzilaborce District
Zemplín (region)
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