Perechyn

Perechyn (Ukrainian Перечин; Russian Перечин / Peretschin, Slovak Perečín, Hungarian Perecseny ) is a city in the Ukraine in the Transcarpathian Oblast.

The town of about 7,000 inhabitants, is the administrative seat of is named after the place Rajon Perechyn and is close to the border with Slovakia at the confluence of Ush and the Turja in the Carpathians. At the site over the regional road R39 from Uzhhorod leads to Sambir, which crosses the Uschok Pass in the north.

The town was first mentioned in writing in 1427 and belonged to 1918 and from 1939 to 1945 to Hungary ( in the county of Ung ) and was 1918-1939/1945 Perečany as a part of Czechoslovakia. Then he came as part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic to the Soviet Union, Ukraine and from 1990 was to 11 June 2004, when he was awarded city rights, an urban-type settlement.

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