Chminianska Nová Ves
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Chminianska Nová Ves 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 Prešov District
Prešov District
Prešov District is a district in the Prešov Region of eastern Slovakia.Until 1918, the district was part of the Hungarian county of Šariš.- Municipalities :*Abranovce*Bajerov*Bertotovce*Brestov*Bretejovce*Brežany*Bzenov...

in the Prešov Region
Prešov Region
The Prešov Region is one of the eight Slovak administrative regions. It consists of 13 districts.-Geography:It is located in north-eastern Slovakia and has an area of 8,975 km². The region has diverse types of landscapes occurring in Slovakia, but mostly highlands and hilly lands dominate the...

of eastern 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...

.

Geography

The 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...

 lies at an altitude
Altitude
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 of 360 metres and covers an area
Area
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 of 10.576km². It has a population
Population
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 of about 1225 people.

Notable citizens

  • Pál Szinyei Merse
    Pál Szinyei Merse
    Pál Szinyei Merse was a Hungarian painter and politician.Born in Szinyeújfalu, Hungary , he learned painting at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich under Karl von Piloty. He was a friend of Wilhelm Leibl and Hans Makart...

     - one of the most well-known rapresentativ of Hungarian impressionist
    Impressionism
    Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement that originated with a group of Paris-based artists whose independent exhibitions brought them to prominence during the 1870s and 1880s...

    painting
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