Vyšný Kubín
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Vyšný Kubín is a village
Village
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet with the population ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand , Though often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighbourhoods, such as the West Village in Manhattan, New...

 and municipality
Municipality
A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...

 in Dolný Kubín District
Dolný Kubín District
Dolný Kubín District is a district inthe Žilina Region of central Slovakia.Until 1918, the district was almost entirely part of the Hungarian county of Árva, except for a small area around Kraľovany which formed part of the county of Liptó.- Municipalities :*Bziny*Dlhá nad Oravou*Dolný Kubín*Horná...

 in the Žilina Region
Žilina Region
The Žilina Region is one of the eight Slovak administrative regions and consists of 11 districts .-Geography:It is located in northern Slovakia and has an area of 6,804 km² and a population of 694,763 . The whole area is mountainous, belonging to the Western Carpathians...

 of northern Slovakia
Slovakia
The Slovak Republic is a landlocked state in Central Europe. It has a population of over five million and an area of about . Slovakia is bordered by the Czech Republic and Austria to the west, Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east and Hungary to the south...

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Famous people

  • Margita Figuli
    Margita Figuli
    Margita Figuli was a Slovak prose writer, translator and author of literature for children and young people.-Biography:...

    , writer born in Vyšný Kubín
  • Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav
    Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav
    Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav (* February 2, 1849 in Vyšný Kubín (Felsőkubin), Austrian Empire, Kingdom of Hungary, † November 8, 1921 in Dolný Kubín, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia), was a Slovak poet, dramatist, translator and for a short time member...

    , poet born in Vyšný Kubín
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