Å uja () is a
village municipality
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The term ''municipality'' may also mean the gov ...
in
Žilina District
Žilina District () is an ''okres'' (district) of the Žilina Region in north-western Slovakia. The district was first established in 1923. Its present borders date from 1996. The heart of the district is the Váh and Rajec river valleys. Urbaniza ...
in the
Žilina Region
The Žilina Region (; ; ) is one of the eight Regions of Slovakia, Slovak administrative regions and consists of 11 districts (okresy) and 315 municipalities, from which 18 have a town status. The region was established in 1923, however, in its p ...
of northern
Slovakia
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.
History
The village was first mentioned in 1393.
Geography
Å uja lies at an
elevation
The elevation of a geographic location (geography), ''location'' is its height above or below a fixed reference point, most commonly a reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational equipotenti ...
of and covers an area of . It has a population of about 327 people.
References
External links
*http://www.statistics.sk/mosmis/eng/run.html
Villages and municipalities in Žilina District
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