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Prešov

Also known as Eperjes

Prešov is the third-largest city of Slovakia, in the north-east of the country on the Torysa river. A royal free town of the Kingdom of Hungary from the 14th century, it became a centre of Lutheranism, with a Protestant college founded in 1667, and later of Greek Catholic and Rusyn culture. On 16 June 1919 the short-lived Slovak Soviet Republic was proclaimed there.

Prešov
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Slovak Soviet Republic

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