Strážske (; (rare); ) is a small

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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 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 m ...

. It is located in the northernmost part of

History

In historical records the town was first mentioned in 1337. 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, 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 town lies at an

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of 135 metres and covers an area of . The

has a population of about 4,289 people. The town lies on the Laborec River.

Demographics

According to the 2001

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, the town had 4,474 inhabitants. 96.38% of inhabitants were

Slovaks The Slovaks ( (historical Sloveni ), singular: ''Slovák'' (historical: ''Sloven'' ), feminine: ''Slovenka'' , plural: ''Slovenky'') are a West Slavic ethnic group and nation native to Slovakia who share a common ancestry, culture, history ...

, 1.07% Roma, 0.87%

Czechs The Czechs (, ; singular Czech, masculine: ''Čech'' , singular feminine: ''Češka'' ), or the Czech people (), are a West Slavs, West Slavic ethnic group and a nation native to the Czech Republic in Central Europe, who share a common Bohemia ...

, 0.45%

Rusyns Rusyns, also known as Carpatho-Rusyns, Carpatho-Russians, Ruthenians, or Rusnaks, are an East Slavs, East Slavic ethnic group from the Carpathian Rus', Eastern Carpathians in Central Europe. They speak Rusyn language, Rusyn, an East Slavic lan ...

and 0.40% Ukrainian. The religious makeup was 63.59%

Roman Catholics The Catholic Church (), also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.27 to 1.41 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2025. It is among the world's oldest and largest international institut ...

, 21.77% Greek Catholics, 7.58% people with no religious affiliation, 2.82% Orthodox and 1.41%

Lutherans Lutheranism is a major branch of Protestantism that emerged under the work of Martin Luther, the 16th-century German friar and reformer whose efforts to reform the theology and practices of the Catholic Church launched the Reformation in 15 ...

Government

The town has its own birth registry and police force.

Economy and facilities

Chemko is chemical plant which produced

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s PCBs) (until 1984) and contaminated a large part of East Slovakia, especially sediments of

Laborec The Laborec (; ) is a river in eastern Slovakia that flows through the districts of Medzilaborce, Humenné, and Michalovce in the Košice Region, and the Prešov Region. The river drains the Laborec Highlands. It is long and its basin size is . ...

river and

reservoir A reservoir (; ) is an enlarged lake behind a dam, usually built to water storage, store fresh water, often doubling for hydroelectric power generation. Reservoirs are created by controlling a watercourse that drains an existing body of wa ...

Zemplínska šírava Zemplínska šírava (sometimes called the "Slovak sea" (, ). is a reservoir in eastern Slovakia, near the town of Michalovce, wholly belonging to the Michalovce District Michalovce District (''okres Michalovce'') is a district in the Košice Reg ...

. The town has a number of food stores, a doctors' surgery, an outpatient facility for children and

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s, and a resident dentist. It also has a Slovak

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and

insurance company Insurance is a means of protection from financial loss in which, in exchange for a fee, a party agrees to compensate another party in the event of a certain loss, damage, or injury. It is a form of risk management, primarily used to protect ...

Culture

The town has a

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, a

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called Broadway, an Ice-rink and a

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pitch. It also has a

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rental store and a town

cinema Cinema may refer to: Film * Film or movie, a series of still images that create the illusion of moving image ** Film industry, the technological and commercial institutions of filmmaking ** Filmmaking, the process of making a film * Movie theate ...

. In the town park is an old

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and the oldest

Lime-tree ''Tilia'' is a genus of about 30 species of trees or bushes, native throughout most of the temperate Northern Hemisphere. The tree is known as linden for the European species, and basswood for North American species. In Great Britain and Irelan ...

in Slovakia.

Transport

The town has a

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and

bus station A bus station, bus depot, or bus interchange is a structure where city buses or intercity buses stop to pick up and drop off passengers. A bus station is larger than a bus stop, which is usually simply a place on the roadside, where buses can st ...

. file:Stražske station.JPG, Strážske railway station file:Nádraží Strážske.jpg, Strážske railway station

Twin towns — sister cities

Strážske is twinned with: *

Nieporęt Nieporęt is a village in Legionowo County, Masovian Voivodeship in east-central Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Nieporęt. It lies approximately east of Legionowo and north of Warsaw. References

...

, Poland * Drahanská vrchovina, Czech Republic * Dolna Banya, Bulgaria

References

External links

*http://www.strazske.sk/ Villages and municipalities in Michalovce District Zemplín (region) Cities and towns in Slovakia {{Michalovce-geo-stub