Stará Myjava (, ) is a

village A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...

and

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality' ...

in Myjava District in the

Trenčín Region The Trenčín Region (, ; ; ) is one of the eight Slovak administrative regions. It consists of nine districts ('' okresy''). The region was established in 1996: previously it had been a part of the West Slovak Region () and partly the Central S ...

of north-western

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History

In historical records the

was first mentioned in 1955. Before the establishment of independent

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in 1918, it was part of

Nyitra County Nyitra County (; ; ; ) was an administrative county ( comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory lay in what is now western Slovakia. Geography Nyitra County shared borders with the Austrian land Moravia and Trencsén County, Turó ...

within the

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. From 1939 to 1945, it was part of the

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Geography

The

lies at an

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of 410 metres and covers an

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of 17.128 km². It has a

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of about 730 people.

References

Villages and municipalities in Myjava District {{Trenčín-geo-stub