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Legnava is a village and municipality in the Stará Ľubovňa District, Prešov Region in northern Slovakia. It has 146 inhabitants.

Legnava
Municipality
View from the Poprad River
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Coordinates: 49°20′N 20°51′E
Country	Slovakia
Region	Prešov
District	Stará Ľubovňa
Area
• Total	8.52[1] km2 (3.29[1] sq mi)
Elevation	449[2] m (1,473[2] ft)
Population  (2021)
• Total	90[3]
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	065 46[2]
Area code	+421 52[2]
Car plate	SL
Website	legnava.sk

History

Early History

The village was founded after 1366, when the then Hungarian king Louis I gave a nobleman Jakub a forested area near the villages of Starina, Orlov, near the Poprad river, to create a village.

Legnava under Hungarian Rule

In the past, the village had tax ports that belonged to the Brežnovica family. In the documents from the 15th and 16th centuries, the tax ports are mentioned sporadically under the name, "Langno", the Hungarian variant of the name, other name included, Lagnó and Hosszúvágás. As well as German names such as Legenau and Langhaw. Documents from 1440 show that the village was named, "Valasi".

In 1600, the village consisted of 16 serf houses. At the end of the 16th century, Legnava was a medium-sized municipality with exclusively serf population mostly of Rusyn origin. In the 17th century, most land around the village belonged to the Semsey family. The land was later given to the Szirmay family in the 18th century. A chapel built by Tomáš Szirmay (1760) is located 1 km from the village.

By the end of the 19th century, the village had 503 inhabitants, the highest number recorded in the village's history. At that time, the inhabitants made their living mainly by hard labour, such as farming and construction.[4]

Present

References

• https://web.archive.org/web/20131019093154/http://legnava.eu/

External links

• Media related to Legnava at Wikimedia Commons
• Official website

На других языках

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[de] Legnava

Legnava (bis 1927 slowakisch „Legňava“; deutsch Legenau, ungarisch Hosszúvágás – bis 1907 Lagnó, russinisch Леґнава/Legnawa)[1][2] ist eine Gemeinde im Nordosten der Slowakei mit 97 Einwohnern (Stand 31. Dezember 2020), die zum Okres Stará Ľubovňa, einem Teil des Prešovský kraj, gehört.

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- [en] Legnava

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