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Modra (German: Modern, Hungarian: Modor, Latin: Modur) is a city and municipality in the Bratislava Region in Slovakia.It has a population of 9,201 as of 2013. It nestles in the foothills of the Malé Karpaty (Little Carpathian mountains) and is an excellent centre for hiking.
The women's basketball team MBK Ružomberok is the most successful basketball team in Slovakia's sport history, with two EuroLeague Women victories. The men's football team MFK Ružomberok plays in the Slovak First Football League. In 2006, it was champion of both the first league (at the time: Corgoň liga) and the Slovak FA Cup.
In historical records the village was first mentioned in 1332. It was a single village named Szelmenc (between 1919 and 1938 it was called Slemence) before 1945. From 1919 until 1945, Szelmenc bore the same history as Subcarpathian Rus'.
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The village has a public library, and a football pitch. There are also two churches, Catholic and Calvinist and a new town hall. There is a pre-school and primary school (K-9). High school students attend a split Hungarian/Slovakian school in Komárno. Buses run from the village to Komárno frequently.
The village was first mentioned in a charter dated 1240, and then in 1464 it was referred to as Zalok. The village was a royal estate in 1240, It presented by Stephen V of Hungary to Mykhailo I of the Rozd dynasty. According to oral tradition, it was a place for rafting across the Tysa River. Most of the village's population adopted the ...
Stráňany (until 1948: Folvark; Hungarian: Nagymajor; Polish: Folwark; Rusyn: Страняны) is a village and municipality in Stará Ľubovňa District in the Prešov Region of northern Slovakia. The village is traditionally inhabited by Rusyns, as one of their westernmost settlements.
Ruskov (Hungarian: Ruszka, Regeteruszka) [4] is a village and municipality in Košice-okolie District in the Košice Region of eastern Slovakia. History [ edit ]