Gorna Orawa (Slovak: ''Horná Orava''), is northern part of the historical region of Orava (

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), with the capital in Trstená. In the interbellum period, reborn

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and newly created

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wanted to gain control over this province and by the decision of the

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, it became part of Czechoslovakia. In November 1938, Poland claimed a few villages in Gorna Orawa, inhabited mostly by Slovaks (without the town of Trstena). The villages were captured back by Slovakia in September 1939 (see:

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), and have been part of Slovakia since then.

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