Veľké Slemence (Slovak pronunciation: [ˈʋeʎkeː ˈslementse]; Hungarian: Nagyszelmenc) is a village and municipality in Michalovce District in the Košice Region of southeastern Slovakia.

"Egy Szelmencből lett a kettő, egyesítse a TeremetőÁldjon Isten békességgel, tartson egybe reménységgelMi reményünk megmarad, összeforr mi szétszakadtKét Szelmencnek kapuszárnya, falvainkat egybezárja" In 2003, a Székely gate (székelykapu) was installed on the border, one half of it being in the Slovak, while the other half being on the Ukrainian part of the border, with a short poem on the Mali Selmentsi part.

The poem can be roughly translated as "From one Szelmenc became two, should be unified by the Creator, God bless with peace and keep us together, our hope remains, and will join together what torn apart, gate wings of the two Szelmec closes our villages together".

[6] The residents of Mali Selmentsi were again forced to travel to Uzhhorod to apply at the Slovak Consular Office for a visa to enter Slovakia and the Schengen Area.

Ukrainian citizens holding biometric passports no longer require a visa to enter the Schengen Area for up to 90 days in a 180-day period.

The divided town, its inhabitants, and their relationships across the border, particularly in the context of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, became the subject of the 2023 book Hranica: príbehy zo slovensko-ukrajinského pohraničia by Slovak journalist Stanislava Harkotová.