Nižná Jablonka
Nižná Jablonka ( russinisch Нижня Яблинка / Nischnja Jablinka, Hungarian Alsóalmád - to 1902 Alsójablonka ) is a municipality in Okres Humenné in eastern Slovakia.
The community in Labortzer Bergland ( Laborecká Highlands ) lies about halfway between the cities of Medzilaborce and Snina at the foot of the Carpathian mountains main ridge, which forms the border between Slovakia and Poland here. The Vysoký Grúň on the Polish border (904 m above sea-level ) is only a few kilometers from Nižná Jablonka away. The municipality is situated on the river Udava, which rises in the National Park Polo Ninen ( Národný park Poloniny ) and after about 38 km long run in a southwesterly direction near Humenné empties into the Laborec.
By Nižná Jablonka the approximately 40 -kilometer-long main street of Medzilaborce leads to Snina that crosses along the way at the foot of the hills along several river valleys.
The place was first mentioned in 1436 in a document.
The population increased in the years between 1991 (206 inhabitants) and 2007 (172 inhabitants) slowly. The population Nižná Jablonkas consists to 77% of Slovaks, 21 % of residents are Russian women. 54 % of the population profess the Greek - Catholic Church, 21% are Orthodox Christians, 13 % are Roman Catholics, and 9% atheist.