๐บ๐ฆ Svaliava (ะกะฒะฐะปัะฒะฐ) is a city located on the Latorytsia River in Zakarpattia Oblast in western Ukraine. It is the administrative centre of Svaliava Raion (district).
Due to the city's complex history, there are also alternative names for it in other languages, including: Czech: Svaljava, German: Schwalbach or Schwallbach, Romanian: Svaliava, Russian: ะกะฒะฐะปัะฒะฐ.
Demographics The 2001 census officially identified more than 94% of the population. โข Ukrainians 94.5% โข Russians 1.5% โข Hungarians 0.7% โข Slovaks 0.6%.
History Swaljawa was first mentioned in the 12th century as a small settlement of a Hungarian feudal lord. In the 18th century, the village was annexed to the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy and was called Schwalbach. These lands later passed to the Count of Schรถnborn and his descendants. Gradually, Swaljawa became a multinational town with a significant part of the population being ethnic Germans.
According to the census of 1910, 47.1% of the population was Greek Catholic, 26.2% Jewish and 22.9% Roman Catholic. The Jewish population was deported to Auschwitz after the German occupation of Hungary, in May 1944, and most of them was murdered there.
After the Second World War a concentration camp was working near the town. Hungarian and German-born civilians (born between 1896, and 1926) were carried off by Soviet forces to the camp purely on the basis of their nationality. They were ordered to report for "malenkij robot" (a corrupted Russian for "small work"), but most of them โ more than 20 thousand deportees were killed in the deathcamp after being subjected to various tortures (no water for days, glass powder mixed into their food). A further 50 000, or so Hungarians (not only men, but also women and children) were deported from Szolyva to the Soviet Union or Galicia. They were later exterminated. The site of the camp is now a memorial park established in 1994.
Svaliava has a population of over 17,124 people. Svaliava also forms the centre of the wider Svaliava Raion which has a population of over 54,138 people. It is also a part of the larger Zakarpattia Oblast.
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Twin Towns - Sister Cities Svaliava has links with:
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๐ซ๐ท Mortagne-au-Perche 48.521
๐ซ๐ท Saint-Brieuc 48.514
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๐บ๐ฆ Kropyvnytskyi 48.5
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Locations Near: Svaliava 22.9833,48.5333
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Antipodal to: Svaliava -157.017,-48.533
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