Staré () 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
Michalovce District
Michalovce District (''okres Michalovce'') is a district in
the Košice Region of 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 e ...
in the
Kosice Region of eastern Slovakia.
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 1221.
Geography
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 ...
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 107 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 6.234 km
2. 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' ...
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 700 people.
The name was taken from gróf Sztáray.
Gallery
File:Staré kostol (leto) church (summer) 02.jpg, Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, est. 1842 (July 2006)
File:Staré socha sv. Jana Nepomuka (leto) statue of St John of Nepomuk (summer).jpg, Statue of John of Nepomuk in Staré
File:Staré kaštieľ (leto) manor house (summer) 05.jpg, Manor house in Staré, est. early 1600s (July 2006)
File:Staré kaštieľ (leto) manor house (summer) 03.jpg, Manor house in Staré, est. early 1600s (July 2006)
File:Staré kaštieľ (leto) manor house (summer) 01.jpg, Manor house in Staré, est. early 1600s (July 2006)
File:Staré obecná sýpka (zal. 1804, leto) village granary (est. 1804, summer) 01.jpg, Village granary in Neo-Classical style, est. 1804 (July 2006)
File:Staré obecná sýpka (zal. 1804, leto) village granary (est. 1804, summer) 03.jpg, Village granary in Neo-Classical style, est. 1804 (July 2006)
File:Staré obecná sýpka (zal. 1804, leto) village granary (est. 1804, summer) 02.jpg, Village granary in Neo-Classical style, est. 1804 (July 2006)
References
Villages and municipalities in Michalovce District
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