Vojka () 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

Trebišov District Trebišov District (, ; ) is a Districts of Slovakia, district in the Košice Region of eastern Slovakia. Until 1918, the district was mostly part of the Administrative divisions of the Kingdom of Hungary, Hungarian county of Zemplén County, Ze ...

in the

Košice Region The Košice Region (, ; ; ) is one of the eight Slovak administrative regions. The region was first established in 1923 and its present borders were established in 1996. It consists of 11 districts ( okresy) and 440 municipalities, 17 of which ...

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 east, Hungary to the south, Austria to the west, and the Czech Republic to the northwest. Slovakia's m ...

Etymology

The name comes from

Slavic Slavic, Slav or Slavonic may refer to: Peoples * Slavic peoples, an ethno-linguistic group living in Europe and Asia ** East Slavic peoples, eastern group of Slavic peoples ** South Slavic peoples, southern group of Slavic peoples ** West Slav ...

, 'a small guardian group'.

Rudolf Krajčovič Rudolf Krajčovič (22 July 1927 in Trakovice – † 29 October 2014) was a Slovak linguist and Slavist, the author of migration-integration theory about the origin of the Slovak language. Life He studied Slovak and philosophy at the Comenius ...

assumes that it guarded the nearby salt storage in

Soľnička Soľnička () is a village and municipality in the Trebišov District in the Košice Region of south-eastern Slovakia. Etymology The name comes from Slavic ''Soľnik''. "Soľ" (salt) + derivational suffix "-nik" meaning "salt store". 1359 ''Zoln ...

References

Villages and municipalities in Trebišov District Municipalities in Slovakia where Hungarian is an official language {{Trebišov-geo-stub