Palota (, ) 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 the

Medzilaborce District Medzilaborce District (''okres Medzilaborce'') is a Districts of Slovakia, district in the Prešov Region of northeastern Slovakia. Until 1918, the district was part of the Administrative divisions of the Kingdom of Hungary, county of Kingdom of H ...

in the

Prešov Region The Prešov Region (, ; ), also Priashiv Region (, ), is one of the eight Slovak administrative regions and consists of 13 districts (okresy) and 666 municipalities, 23 of which have town status. The region was established in 1996 and is the mos ...

of far north-eastern

Slovakia 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 m ...

History

In historical records the village was first mentioned in 1330. 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, it was part of

Zemplén County Zemplén (, , , ) 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 Slovakia (Zemplín (region), Zemplín region), while a smaller so ...

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 ...

Geography

The

lies at an

altitude Altitude is a distance measurement, usually in the vertical or "up" direction, between a reference datum (geodesy), datum and a point or object. The exact definition and reference datum varies according to the context (e.g., aviation, geometr ...

of 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 . It has a

population Population is a set of humans or other organisms in a given region or area. Governments conduct a census to quantify the resident population size within a given jurisdiction. The term is also applied to non-human animals, microorganisms, and pl ...

of about 190 people.

Gallery

File:Palota-kostely2015d.jpg, Orthodox Church of the Nativity of Our Lady in Palota File:Palota-kostely2015e.jpg, Front facade of the Orthodox Church of the Nativity of Our Lady in Palota File:Palota-kostely2015c.jpg, Orthodox Church of the Nativity of Our Lady and belfry in Palota File:Palota-kostely2015h.jpg, Greek Catholic Church in Palota File:Palota-kostely2015g.jpg, Greek Catholic Church in Palota File:Palota-kostely2015f.jpg, Front facade of Greek Catholic Church in Palota File:Palota cemetery.jpg, WWI military cemetery in Palota File:Palota-kostely2015j.jpg, Funeral home in Palota File:Palota-úřad2015.jpg, Municipal office in Palota File:Palota houses.jpg, A street with newer housing in Palota File:Palota-ulice-podél-potoka2015.jpg, Street with local stream in Palota File:Palota-ulice-podél-potoka2015d.jpg, Old cottage in Palota File:Palota-ulice-podél-potoka2015c.jpg, Traditional wooden barn in Palota File:Palota-památník2015.jpg, Commemorative plaque and T-34 medium tank on public display at local WWII memorial File:Granica radoszyce palota.jpg, The Palota-Radoszyce foot-only border crossing between Poland and Slovakia File:Radoszyce Pass border stone.jpg, 1890s boundary stone at the Palota-Radoszyce foot-only border crossing between Poland and Slovakia

References

Villages and municipalities in Medzilaborce District Zemplín (region) {{Prešov-geo-stub