Perín-Chym is a

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' ...

(village) in eastern

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near the town of

Košice Košice is the largest city in eastern Slovakia. It is situated on the river Hornád at the eastern reaches of the Slovak Ore Mountains, near the border with Hungary. With a population of approximately 230,000, Košice is the second-largest cit ...

. It arose in 1964 by a merger of the municipalities ''Perín'' (first written mention 1220; before 1927 called Perina) and ''Chym'' (first written mention 1294; also called Him in some periods in the past). The municipality Vyšný Lanec was merged with Perín-Chym in 1991. The village Perín gave name to the Lords of Perín ( Perényi), a noble family in the

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, whose oldest known member Urban was granted the domain of Perín in 1292. Today the municipality is well-known thanks to

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and

fishery Fishery can mean either the enterprise of raising or harvesting fish and other aquatic life or, more commonly, the site where such enterprise takes place ( a.k.a., fishing grounds). Commercial fisheries include wild fisheries and fish far ...

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