Chop, Ukraine

Chop ( Ukrainian and Russian Чоп, Hungarian Csap, Slovak Čop ) is a small town in the Transcarpathian Oblast, Uzhhorod Raion in the far west of Ukraine ( Transcarpathian ). It is located on the border of Hungary, Slovakia and Ukraine. From Hungary separates the city's border river Tisza.

Chop has about 8800 inhabitants, of whom about 4000 are Hungary, and is an important railway junction and border station. Here, the railway lines from Lviv / Striy take ( further to Debrecen and Budapest) and Lviv- Uzhgorod ( continue to Kosice ). Because of the change from broad gauge to standard gauge is a Umspuranlage site.

In addition to the railroad crossings to Hungary and Slovakia, there is a truck and car border crossing to Hungary ( Záhony ). Opposing town in Slovakia is Čierna Tisou.

Near Chop is the westernmost point of Ukraine. From here it is about 1500 km to Chervona Sirka ( Червона Зірка ), the easternmost point of Ukraine.

History

Chop shares the history of the Carpatho - Ukraine and had many over the last few centuries dominions belonging. In the mid-11th century it was conquered by the Magyars, the first written mention is in 1281 as Chap. Until 1919, the city of the Kingdom of Hungary from 1526 and thus also belonged to the Austrian Empire and from 1867 to Austria - Hungary. Within the Kingdom of Hungary, the city was part of the county Ung ( Ush ). After that, the city was in Czechoslovakia in the interwar period to the Slovak part of the country. From 1938 it belonged to enlarged by the first Vienna Award Hungary. On October 29, 1944 Chop was conquered during the Ostkarpatischen operation of the Red Army. In 1945, she came to the end of the German occupation after a territorial exchange with the Soviet Union ( Ukrainian SSR ) and belongs since 1991 to the independent Ukraine. There she was until 2003 the Uzhhorod Raion, September 5, 2003, she stands as a district-free city under Oblastverwaltung.

City Name / languages

Due to the wide variety of ethnic groups in this region, there are different linguistic realizations for Chop: Russian Чоп, Slovak and Czech Čop, Hungarian Csap. In English transcription, the city is called Chop.

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