Michalovce

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• Ciudad Real
• Villarreal
• Vyškov
• Jarosław
• Kavarna
• Liptovský Mikuláš
• Pančevo
• Kremenchuk
• Uzhhorod
• Sátoraljaújhely

History

The city of present-day Michalovce along with the adjacent lowlands was settled in from the Palaeolithic era. Archaeologists have found prehistoric Homo sapiens skeletons in the region, as well as numerous objects and vestiges by the foot of the Vihorlat mountains, dating from the Neolithic. During the Late Bronze Age, which meant the period of processing bronze as the main metal, the surrounding area was an important cultural and trading center within the Carpathian Basin and, together with the area of the southern Tisa River Basin, played an important part forging relations with areas outside of the Carpathians. The history of Michalovce was significantly influenced by presence of Celtic tribes, starting from the Gallic expansions in the 4th century BC, and later by the Romans. The town of Michalovce is the place where the legendary Prince Laborec died and was buried according to legends. After the Ottoman conquest in south central Hungary in the sixteenth century, Hungary was divided, and present-day Michalovce became part of the Eastern Hungarian Kingdom, and later Royal Hungary. The town grew significantly in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Since the Austrian-Hungarian Ausgleich of 1867, it achieved the status of a large community, and shortly afterward became the seat of one of the districts of Zemplén County. The 19th century brought back significant development of the town. In 1828, there were 49 craftsman workshops representing all 22 kinds of craft production of the crafts licences in the region of Zemplin. Until 1874 there were a few industrial factories of local importance in the surroundings of Michalovce (starch factories, distilleries, mill-houses, brickworks) with a limited number of work opportunities. The construction of the railway…

Geography

The town lies in the Košice Region, in the Eastern Slovak Lowland on the Laborec river, historically belonging to Zemplén County. The town is about east of Košice and west of Uzhhorod, Ukraine. Geographical features nearby include the Vihorlat Mountains and the Zemplínska šírava lake. Nearby is the biggest lake of the Vihorlat Mountains, Morské oko, Vinné castle and Vinné lake.

Most-observed species

• Great Egret

  Ardea alba Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  412
• Gray/Purple Heron

  Ardea cinerea Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  401
• Eurasian Marsh-Harrier

  Circus aeruginosus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  382
• Graylag Goose

  Anser anser (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  382
• Mallard

  Anas platyrhynchos Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  378
• European Starling

  Sturnus vulgaris Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  371
• Barn Swallow

  Hirundo rustica Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  368
• Eurasian Coot

  Fulica atra Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  348

Most recent

• M 5 — 2023-10-09
  15 km SE of Stropkov, Slovakia
• M 3.3 — 2020-04-23
  7 km SSW of Strážske, Slovakia
• M 4.8 — 2006-11-23
  6 km S of Koson’, Ukraine
• M 3.1 — 2006-11-15
  5 km SE of Vary, Ukraine
• M 4.3 — 2003-05-20
  12 km S of Snina, Slovakia