Livovská Huta is a village

Village

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 and municipality

Municipality

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 in Bardejov District

Bardejov District

Bardejov District is a district in the Prešov Region of eastern Slovakia.Until 1918, the district was part of the Hungarian county of...

 in the Prešov Region

Prešov Region

The Prešov Region is one of the eight Slovak administrative regions. It consists of 13 districts.-Geography:It is located in north-eastern Slovakia and has an area of 8,975 km². The region has diverse types of landscapes occurring in Slovakia, but mostly highlands and hilly lands dominate the...

 of north-east Slovakia

Slovakia

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.

History

In historical records

History

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 the village

Village

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 was first mentioned in 1773. The "huta" in its name refers to a glass factory that was once located there.

Geography

The municipality

Municipality

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 lies at an altitude

Altitude

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 of 640 meters (2,100 feet) and covers an area

Area

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 of 14.215 km² (5.5 miles²).
It has a population

Population

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 of about 56 people and is 18.5 km (11.5 mi) southwest of Bardejov

Bardejov

Bardejov is a town in North-Eastern Slovakia. It is situated in the Šariš region and has about 33,000 inhabitants. The spa town, mentioned for the first time in 1241, exhibits numerous cultural monuments in its completely intact medieval town center...

. It is at the headwaters of the Topľa

Topla

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River.

External links

• http://www.statistics.sk/mosmis/eng/run.html