Šarišské Jastrabie (, ) 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

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Stará Ľubovňa District Stará Ľubovňa District (''okres Stará Ľubovňa'') is a district in the Prešov Region of eastern Slovakia. Until 1918, the district was almost entirely part of the county of Kingdom of Hungary of Spiš, apart from a small area in the east wh ...

in the

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of northern

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History

In historical records, the village was first mentioned in 1435. Byzantine Catholic Parish of the Dormition of the Mother of God Šarišské Jastrabie
/ref> Before the establishment of independent

Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia ( ; Czech language, Czech and , ''Česko-Slovensko'') was a landlocked country in Central Europe, created in 1918, when it declared its independence from Austria-Hungary. In 1938, after the Munich Agreement, the Sudetenland beca ...

in 1918, Šarišské Jastrabie was part of

Sáros County Sáros (- Hungarian, Slovak: ''Šariš'', Latin: ''comitatus Sarossiensis'', German: ''Scharosch'') was an administrative county ( comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory is now in northeastern Slovakia. Today, Šariš is only an in ...

within the

Kingdom of Hungary The Kingdom of Hungary was a monarchy in Central Europe that existed for nearly a millennium, from 1000 to 1946 and was a key part of the Habsburg monarchy from 1526-1918. The Principality of Hungary emerged as a Christian kingdom upon the Coro ...

. From 1939 to 1945, it was part of the

Slovak Republic Slovakia, officially the Slovak Republic, 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 west, and the Czech Republic to the northwest. Slovakia's ...

. On 22 January 1945, the

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dislodged the

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from Šarišské Jastrabie and it was once again part of Czechoslovakia.

Geography

The municipality lies at an

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of 565 metres (1,850 ft) and covers an area of 21.390 km² (8.645 mi²). It has a population of about 1170 people.

References

External links

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Šarišské Jastrabie official website
Villages and municipalities in Stará Ľubovňa District Šariš {{Prešov-geo-stub