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Oľšavica is a village and obec in Levoča District in the Prešov Region of central-eastern Slovakia.

Key facts

Slovak place.name
Oľšavica
Slovak place.settlement_type
Municipality
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Olsavica-levoca-flag.svg
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Region
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District
Slovak place.subdivision_name2
Levoča District
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Slovakia Prešov Region#Slovakia
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1
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Location of Oľšavica in the Prešov Region##Location of Oľšavica in Slovakia
Slovak place.established_title
First mentioned
Slovak place.established_date
1300
Slovak place.elevation_m
776
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Postal code
Slovak place.postal_code
537 3
Slovak place.area_code
+421 53
Slovak place.registration_plate
LE

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7 sections
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  • History
  • Geography
  • Population
  • Ethnicity
  • Religion
  • Landmarks and tourist attraction
  • References

Oľšavica is a village and obec in Levoča District in the Prešov Region of central-eastern Slovakia.

==History== The village was first mentioned in 1300 or 1308. From its establishment, villagers have followed the Greek Catholic faith; in 1700 there were 348 Greek Catholics out of 351 people living in the village. It is located in the Greek Catholic Metropolitan Archeparchy of Prešov. Two natives of the village, brothers Šimon Štefan and Michal Manuel Olšavský, made their hometown famous as bishops of the Greek Catholic Eparchy of Mukachevo in the eighteenth century. In the late nineteenth century, many villagers emigrated to the United States.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Oľšavica” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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