Kolbasov (; ) is a village and municipality in

Snina District Snina District (''okres Snina'') is a district in the Prešov Region of eastern Slovakia. Until 1918, the district was part of the county of Kingdom of Hungary of Zemplín. It's the easternmost district in Slovakia, and includes the easternmost ...

in the

Prešov Region The Prešov Region (, ; ), also Priashiv Region (, ), is one of the eight Slovak administrative regions and consists of 13 districts (okresy) and 666 municipalities, 23 of which have town status. The region was established in 1996 and is the mos ...

of north-eastern

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Etymology

''Klobásov''—"a place where sausages (''klobása'', in dialects also ''kolbása'', ''klbása'') are made". The village was famous for its slaughterhouse. Alternativelly, something curved (a street, a creek or a village, the village was founded by the bend of the creek). ''Kolbasa'', ''Kolbazo'' 1548 (the first written mention), ''Kolbaso'' 1773, ''Kolbásow'' 1808; in Hungarian also ''Kolbaszó'' until 1899, after renamed to ''Végaszó''.

History

Before the establishment of independent

Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia ( ; Czech language, Czech and , ''Česko-Slovensko'') was a landlocked country in Central Europe, created in 1918, when it declared its independence from Austria-Hungary. In 1938, after the Munich Agreement, the Sudetenland beca ...

in 1918, Kolbasov 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

Kingdom of Hungary The Kingdom of Hungary was a monarchy in Central Europe that existed for nearly a millennium, from 1000 to 1946 and was a key part of the Habsburg monarchy from 1526-1918. The Principality of Hungary emerged as a Christian kingdom upon the Coro ...

. In 1939, it was for a short time part of the

Slovak Republic 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 ...

. As a result of the

Slovak–Hungarian War The Slovak–Hungarian War, or Little War (, ), was a war fought from 23 March to 31 March 1939 between the First Slovak Republic and Hungary in eastern Slovakia. Prelude After the Munich Pact, which weakened Czech lands to the west, Hungari ...

of 1939, it was from 1939 to 1944 again part of

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. On 26 October 1944, the

Red Army The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Republic and, from 1922, the Soviet Union. The army was established in January 1918 by a decree of the Council of People ...

entered Kolbasov and it was once again part of Czechoslovakia. Several Jews were murdered here by the

Ukrainian Insurgent Army The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (, abbreviated UPA) was a Ukrainian nationalist partisan formation founded by the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) on 14 October 1942. The UPA launched guerrilla warfare against Nazi Germany, the S ...

(UPA) on 8 December 1945, the last night of

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Geography

The municipality lies at an altitude of 312 metres and covers an area of 15.965 km². It has a population of about 110 people.

References

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* * Villages and municipalities in Snina District Zemplín (region) Slovak–Hungarian War {{Prešov-geo-stub