Stakčín

Stakčín (Hungarian: Takcsány, Rusyn: Стащін) is a larger village and a municipality in Snina District in the Prešov Region of north-eastern Slovakia.

The municipality lies in the Cirocha river valley, at an altitude of 257 metres and with a total area of 167.742 km2.

Before the establishment of independent Czechoslovakia in 1918, Stakčín was part of Zemplén County within the Kingdom of Hungary.

The area was a battleground in the Slovak-Hungarian War of 1939, as a result of which it again became part of Hungary.

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