Budkovce ( ) a

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and

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Michalovce District Michalovce District (''okres Michalovce'') is a district in the Košice Region 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 e ...

in the Kosice Region of eastern Slovakia.

History

In historical records the village was first mentioned in

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. Before the establishment of independent

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in 1918, it was part of

Zemplén County Zemplén (, , , ) was an administrative county (Comitatus (Kingdom of Hungary), comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. The northern part of its territory is now situated in eastern Slovakia (Zemplín (region), Zemplín region), while a smaller so ...

within the

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Geography

The

lies at an

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of 102 metres and covers an

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of (2020-06-30/-07-01).

Ethnicity

The

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is almost entirely Slovak in

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Population

Its

is 1,508 people (2020-12-31).

Government

The village relies on the

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and

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offices, police force and

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Michalovce Michalovce (; , , Romani language, Romani: ''Mihalya'', Yiddish language, Yiddish: מיכאלאָווצע ''Mikhaylovets'' or ''Mykhaylovyts''; ) is a town on the Laborec river in eastern Slovakia. Originally named after the Archangel St Michael ...

although the village has its own birth registry.

Economy

The village has a

post office A post office is a public facility and a retailer that provides mail services, such as accepting letter (message), letters and parcel (package), parcels, providing post office boxes, and selling postage stamps, packaging, and stationery. Post o ...

, a Slovak

bank A bank is a financial institution that accepts Deposit account, deposits from the public and creates a demand deposit while simultaneously making loans. Lending activities can be directly performed by the bank or indirectly through capital m ...

and

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and a number of food stores.

Sports

The village has a

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pitch and a

gym A gym, short for gymnasium (: gymnasiums or gymnasia), is an indoor venue for exercise and sports. The word is derived from the ancient Greek term " gymnasion". They are commonly found in athletic and fitness centres, and as activity and learn ...

nasium.

Genealogical resources

The records for genealogical research are available at the state archive "Statny Archiv in Kosice, Presov, Slovakia" * Roman Catholic church records (births/marriages/deaths): 1850-1895 (parish A) * Greek Catholic church records (births/marriages/deaths): 1756-1904 (parish B) * Reformed church records (births/marriages/deaths): 1793-1938 (parish B)

Gallery

File:Budkovce kostol.jpg, Holy Trinity church (est. 14th century) in Budkovce File:Budkovce pomnik.jpg, Memorial to the executed victims of the 1831 East Slovak Peasant Uprising File:Budkovce ŠRT.jpg, Standard gauge and broad gauge railway and broad gauge freight station in Budkovce

References

External links

*https://web.archive.org/web/20071217080336/http://www.statistics.sk/mosmis/eng/run.html
Surnames of living people in Budkovce
Villages and municipalities in Michalovce District Zemplín (region) {{Michalovce-geo-stub