Slovenské Nové Mesto

Slovenské Nové Mesto (Hungarian Újhely, Kisújhely, Szlovákújhely or Tótújhely ) is a small town with about 1,000 inhabitants in the south-eastern Slovakia on the border with Hungary. The place has a road and railway border crossing between Slovakia and Hungary.

The municipality is situated on the southern edge of the Slovak part of the famous Tokaj wine region. The Tokaj produced here was already known in the 13th century and in 1913 became protected by a special law. In tuff and sandstone wine cellar have been excavated with a length of up to 300 m.

Until the signing of the Peace Treaty of Trianon in 1920, Slovenské Nové Mesto was a suburb of the Hungarian city Sátoraljaújhely. The boundaries they fell to Czechoslovakia, as the Carpatho Czechoslovakia was awarded and the train station on the time the only rail link between Košice ( Kassa ) and the karpatoukrainischen city Mukachevo ( railway Košice - Chop ) is.

By the First Vienna Award, the city from 1938 to 1945 was again briefly back to Hungary.

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