Čierna nad Tisou

Čierna nad Tisou (Hungarian: Tiszacsernyő) is a town in the Košice Region in Slovakia. About 3,600 people live there.


 Location 
It lies 11 km south-east of Kráľovský Chlmec. It is a railway border crossing between Slovakia and Ukraine.

 History 
The town only started to grow after 1946, when the new Czechoslovak-Soviet border was formed. At that time, it became Slovakia’s largest railway border crossing. In 1968, Alexander Dubček, the leader of the Czechoslovak Communist Party, met Leonid Brezhnev, the Soviet Communist Party leader, in a train carriage here. This happened just before the Soviet “help” in August, which was the crushing of the Prague Spring. Because of its fast growth, the settlement was given town status in 1969.

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 Other websites 

 Čierna nad Tisou's website
 e-obce.sk
Category:Towns in Slovakia
Category:Košice Region