RabÄa
Rabča (Hungarian Rabcsa - older even Rapcsa ) is a large municipality in Okres Námestovo within the Žilinský in Slovakia.
The place is located in the mountains Podbeskydská Highlands in Beskydy near the river Polhoranka, between the Babia hora in the northwest and the about ten kilometers to the south located Orava reservoir. The Námestovo is removed ten kilometers to the south.
Rabča was mentioned on a map for the first time in 1550 as Rapcia and is reported four years later as a Wallachian village. Because of its location on a royal road to Poland and near the border and the place was looted several times or even burned, as happened in 1604, so in 1608 the village of Thurzos had to be resettled. The population dealt with the cattle and sheep, timber, weaving and agriculture, but due to non- fertile soils and climatic conditions was only slightly productive.
To date, the Goral dialect is spoken by local, especially older population still.
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- Rabča
- Kraj municipality in Žilinský
- Location in Slovakia