Zábiedovo () is a
village
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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
TvrdoÅ¡Ãn District
TvrdoÅ¡Ãn District (''okres TvrdoÅ¡Ãn'') is a Districts of Slovakia, district in
the Žilina Region of central Slovakia. The district was first established in 1996; in 1923 it had been a part of Trstená District.
Municipalities
*Brezovica, Tv ...
in the
Žilina Region of northern
Slovakia
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.
History
In
historical records the
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 ...
was first mentioned in 1567.
Geography
The
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' ...
lies at an
elevation
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of 670 metres and covers an
area
Area is the measure of a region's size on a 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 open surface or the boundary of a three-di ...
of 17.974 km². It has a
population
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of about 790 people.
External links
*https://web.archive.org/web/20070513023228/http://www.statistics.sk/mosmis/eng/run.html
Villages and municipalities in TvrdoÅ¡Ãn District
Orava (region)
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