Tatranská Javorina ( pl, Jaworzyna Tatrzańska,
Hungarian: ''Tátrajavorina'') is a
village
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in
Poprad District
Poprad District (''okres Poprad'') is a district in
the Prešov Region of eastern Slovakia. The district had been established in 1923 and from 1996 exists in its current borders. It consists of 29 municipalities, from which three have a town statu ...
in the
Prešov Region of northern
Slovakia
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.
Geography
The
municipality
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The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...
lies at an
altitude
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of 1000 metres and covers an
area
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of 94.041 km². It has a
population
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of about 230 people.
It is located by the Javorová Valley in the
Tatra Mountains
The Tatra Mountains (), Tatras, or Tatra (''Tatry'' either in Slovak () or in Polish () - '' plurale tantum''), are a series of mountains within the Western Carpathians that form a natural border between Slovakia and Poland. They are the hi ...
at the Polish border.
History
The beginnings of the municipality are in the 18th century. The name of the village stems from the former
maple
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(Slovak: ''javor'') forests, after which some geographical objects were named (brook Javorinka, Javorová Valley and
Javorový štít). Between 1918 and 1921 the
Polish
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* Anything from or related to Poland, a country in Europe
* Polish language
* Poles
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government several times wanted to make the village as well as adjacent Tatra valleys part of Poland, later on the Poles negotiated with
Czechoslovakia
, rue, Чеськословеньско, , yi, טשעכאסלאוואקיי,
, common_name = Czechoslovakia
, life_span = 1918–19391945–1992
, p1 = Austria-Hungary
, image_p1 ...
about change of the border, but unsuccessfully. On November 1, 1938, after the
Munich Agreement
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, Poland took control over the village. It was captured by the Slovaks in September 1939 (see:
Polish September Campaign
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and
Field Army Bernolák
The Field Army Bernolák ( sk, Slovenská Poľná Armádna skupina "Bernolák") was a field army of the Axis Slovak Republic during World War II. It was named after Anton Bernolák, the first codifier of the literary Slovak language.
The Slova ...
) and it has been part of Slovakia ever since.
See also
*
Polish-Czechoslovak border conflicts
References
External links
*http://tatranskajavorina.e-obce.sk/
*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
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