Svinia
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| Basic data | |||
| State : | Slovakia | ||
| Kraj : | Prešovský kraj | ||
| Okres : | Prešov | ||
| Region : | Šariš | ||
| Area : | 14.734 km² | ||
| Residents : | 2,396 (Dec. 31, 2019) | ||
| Population density : | 163 inhabitants per km² | ||
| Height : | 361 m nm | ||
| Postal code : | 082 32 | ||
| Telephone code : | 0 51 | ||
| Geographic location : | 49 ° 0 ′ N , 21 ° 7 ′ E | ||
| License plate : | PO | ||
| Kód obce : | 525171 | ||
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| Community type : | local community | ||
| Administration (as of November 2018) | |||
| Mayor : | Miroslav Nawrat | ||
| Address: | Obecný úrad Svinia Hlavná 87/10 08232 Svinia |
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| Website: | www.obecsvinia.sk | ||
| Statistics information on statistics.sk | |||
Svinia (until 1927 in Slovak : Sviňa ; in Hungarian : Szinye ) is a municipality in eastern Slovakia . It is located in the Šarišská vrchovina mountains on the bank of the Malá Svinka river on the main road I / 18 between Prešov (8 km to the east) and Široké at the Branisko tunnel (16 km to the west).
history
The community was first mentioned in 1262. There is a Roman Catholic church from the 13th century and a country castle from the 18th century.
There are around 300 slums in Slovakia. Among them, Svinia is considered limbo. 700 Roma live there , who are even despised by other Roma because they are considered dog eaters . The place is divided into a Slovak and a Gypsy part. While the Slovak part calls itself White Svinia , Roma Svinia is characterized by 100% unemployment and appalling hygienic and human conditions. Three quarters of the residents of Svinia are young people.
In 1993, Canadian anthropologists visited the Roma settlement. Since then, Svinia has been notorious in Europe and has been the subject of studies, books and films. International projects to improve the lives of the Roma in Svinia have been running since the 1990s.
See also Roma in the Czech Republic and Slovakia
gallery
View of the church in the village
literature
- Karl-Markus Gauß : The dog eaters from Svinia. Paul Zsolnay Verlag, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-552-05292-5 .
