Country Ukraine Raion Svaliava Raion Incorporated 1957 Population 17,050 (2016) | Oblast Zakarpattia Oblast Founded 12th century Time zone CET (UTC+1) Local time Saturday 11:32 PM | |
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Svaliava (Ukrainian: Свалява, Yiddish: סוואליאווע Svalyave) is a city located on the Latorytsia River in Zakarpattia Oblast in western Ukraine. It is the administrative center of Svaliava Raion (district). Martha-Margarita Island (Ukrainian: острів Марта-Маргарита) on the Latorytsia is located inside Svaliava. Population: 17,050 (2016 est.).
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Map of Svalyava, Zakarpatska, Ukraine
Names
There are several alternative names used for this city: Rusyn: Свалява, German: Schwalbach or Schwallbach, Hungarian: Szolyva, Slovak: Svaľava, Romanian: Svaliava, Russian: Свалява.
Demographics
At the 2001 census, the population included: [1]
History
According to the census of 1910, 47.1% of the population was Greek Catholic, 26.2% Jewish and 22.9% Roman Catholic. The Jewish population was deported to Auschwitz by the Hungarian government in May 1944 and murdered by the Germans.
After the second World War a concentration camp was working near the town. Hungarian and German-born civilians (born between 1896 and 1926) were carried off by Soviet forces to the camp purely on the basis of their nationality. They were ordered to report for "malenkij robot" (a corrupted Russian for "small work"), but most of them – more than 10 thousands deportees were killed in the camp. The site of the camp is now a memorial park established in 1994.