Tatranská Javorina (, , ) 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 ...

in Poprad District 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 northern

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Geography

The

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lies at an

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of 1000 metres. It is located in the Javorová Valley in the Tatra Mountains at the Polish-Slovak border.

History

The municipality started in the 18th century. Between 1918 and 1921, the Polish government attempted several times to annex the village. On November 1, 1938, following the

Munich Agreement The Munich Agreement was reached in Munich on 30 September 1938, by Nazi Germany, the United Kingdom, the French Third Republic, French Republic, and the Kingdom of Italy. The agreement provided for the Occupation of Czechoslovakia (1938–194 ...

, Poland took control over the village. During the Slovak invasion of Poland, Slovak troops occupied the town, but transferred it to German occupation on September 29, 1939. It was annexed into the

General Government The General Government (, ; ; ), formally the General Governorate for the Occupied Polish Region (), was a German zone of occupation established after the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany, Slovak Republic (1939–1945), Slovakia and the Soviet ...

on October 12, 1939, but was officially transferred to

on November 24, 1939. During the

Slovak National Uprising Slovak National Uprising ( Slovak: ''Slovenské národné povstanie'', abbreviated SNP; alternatively also ''Povstanie roku 1944'', English: ''The Uprising of 1944'') was organised by the Slovak resistance during the Second World War, directed ag ...

, the town was occupied by German troops, but on January 1, 1945, it was occupied by Soviet troops. After the war, the town became part of the

Czechoslovak Socialist Republic The Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, (Czech language, Czech and Slovak language, Slovak: ''Československá socialistická republika'', ČSSR) known from 1948 to 1960 as the Czechoslovak Republic (''Československá republika)'', Fourth Czecho ...

, but due to the status of Czechoslovakia and

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in the

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, the two countries only formally resolved disputes over the area on June 13, 1958, when an agreement was signed. Today, the town is part of independent

Etymology

The name of the village likely originates from the Slovak word ''javor'' (

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), due to the local maple forests.

References

External links

*http://www.vysoketatry.com/obce/tjavorina/tjavorina.html Information on vysoketatry.com portal *http://panoramy.sme.sk/panorama/1004/tatranska-javorina/ Panoramas of Tatranská Javorina fix indexing Spiš {{Prešov-geo-stub

Geography

History

Etymology

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