Pavlovce nad Uhom
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| Country | Slovakia | ||
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| Region | Košice | ||
| District | Michalovce | ||
| Elevation | 105 m (344 ft) | ||
| Coordinates | 48°37′N 22°04′E / 48.617°N 22.067°ECoordinates: 48°37′N 22°04′E / 48.617°N 22.067°E | ||
| Area | 33.42 km2 (12.90 sq mi) | ||
| Population | 4 439 (2010-12-31) | ||
| Postal code | 072 14 | ||
| Area code | +421-56 | ||
| Car plate | MI | ||
   Location of Pavlovce nad Uhom in Slovakia
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  Location of Pavlovce nad Uhom in the Košice Region
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| Statistics: MOŠ/MIS | |||
| Website: www.pavlovce.sk | |||
Pavlovce nad Uhom (Romani: Pavlovcis, Hungarian: Pálócz) is a village and municipality in the Slovak district of Michalovce, which lies in the Eastern Slovak Kosice Region.
Roughly 19 kilometers southeast of the town of Michalovce, Pavlovce sits, as its name indicates, on the south bank of the Uzh River (Slovak: Uh), about eight kilometers west of the border with Ukraine. The population of the village was 4.439 at the time of the 2010 census. Apart from the village itself, which predates medieval times, the municipality Pavlovce nad Uhom was established in 1960 by union of two separate municipalities – Pavlovce nad Uhom and Ťahyňa.
After decay of Great Moravian Empire, Slovak territory including East Slovak Lowland became part of Kingdom of Hungary for next to near thousand years. Its territory became colonized by Hungarians, in three phases, who have sequentially mixed with native Slavic and Slovak population. New guarding posts, settlements of strategical importance started to grow up on border lines of young Kingdom of Hungary.
According to professor Ferdinant Uličný, Pavlovce nad Uhom was established by watch-keeping units of The Cumans (in Russian: Половцы – Polovtsi,Polovci; in slovak: Plavci). Captured Cumans were forced to carry out watch-keeping military service. The name Pavlovce, Plavce was not given to early settlement by The Cumans themselves but Slovak inhabitants and Hungarian nobles during the following decades. On the other hand, others stand for different explanation, that the name was derived from popular Slavic name Pavol.
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