Korolevo

Coordinates: 48°09′0″N 23°8′0″E / 48.15000°N 23.13333°E Korolevo (Ukrainian: Королевe, Hungarian: Királyháza) is an urban type settlement on Tisza River in Vynohradiv Raion, Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukraine. Population: 9,339 (2013 est.)[1].

History

The ruins of a castle in Korolevo.

During the reign of Saint Stephen King of Hungary, there existed a German settlement. On the hill was built a wooden royal hunting house, from which the town got its name. Királyháza, its original Hungarian name which was later translated to the Slavic Korolev, literally means king's house. In the 14th century at the site a stone castle named Nyalab was built. In 1672 the castle was destroyed.

In 1910, the village in the Ugocsa County of the Kingdom of Hungary had 3,167 inhabitants, of whom 2,224 were Hungarians and 932 Ruthenians. In 1918 Koroleve joined the then newly formed Czechoslovakia (as part of the Subcarpathian Ruthenia). In 1944 close to the end of World War II, it ended up in the Ukrainian SSR as part the USSR. In 1947 the village got the status of an urban type settlement. In 1991 it became part of an independent Ukraine.

References

  1. ↑ "Чисельність наявного населення України (Actual population of Ukraine)" (in Ukrainian). State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Retrieved 21 January 2015.

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