Terchová
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Terchová () is a large village and municipality (population 4,073) in the Malá Fatra mountains in the Žilina District in the Žilina Region of northern Slovakia.
Key facts
- Slovak place.name
- Terchová
- Slovak place.settlement_type
- Municipality
- Slovak place.image_skyline
- Slovakia Terchova 18.jpg
- Slovak place.image_flag
- Terchova-zilina-flag.svg
- Slovak place.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Slovak place.subdivision_type2
- District
- Slovak place.subdivision_name2
- Žilina District
- Slovak place.pushpin_map
- Slovakia Žilina Region#Slovakia
- Slovak place.pushpin_relief
- 1
- Slovak place.pushpin_map_caption
- Location of Terchová in the Žilina Region##Location of Terchová in Slovakia
- Slovak place.established_title
- First mentioned
- Slovak place.established_date
- 1598
- Slovak place.elevation_m
- 560
- Slovak place.postal_code_type
- Postal code
- Slovak place.postal_code
- 130 6
- Slovak place.area_code
- +421 41
- Slovak place.registration_plate
- ZA
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Slovakia
- Official name
- Terchová
- Country
- Slovakia
- Located in
- Žilina District
- Population
- 3912
- Area
- 84.541848
- Elevation
- 514
- Body of water
- Varínka
- Official website
- www.terchova.sk
- Image
- Slovakia Terchova 18.jpg
- Dialing code
- 041
- Licence plate code
- ZA
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- postal code
- 013 06
- Commons category
- Terchová
- category for people born here
- Q10178523
- topic's main category
- Category:Terchová
- Commons gallery
- Terchová
- time of earliest written record
- 1580-00-00
- native label
- Terchová
- inception
- 1580-00-00
- twinned administrative body
- Liptovský Mikuláš
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- Names and etymology
- History
- Geography
- Population
- Ethnicity
- Religion
- Gallery
- Notable births
- References
Terchová () is a large village and municipality (population 4,073) in the Malá Fatra mountains in the Žilina District in the Žilina Region of northern Slovakia.
==Names and etymology== In the 16th century, the village was known as Kralowa alias Tyerchowa (1598). The name Kralowa means 'royal' in Slovak and refers to royal meadows. The name Tyerchowa comes from the Hungarian noun terhe 'burden', which was borrowed into Slovak before the 12th century as tärcha > ťarcha, and later also as tercha with the Slovak possessive suffix -ova. It refers to legal obligations of the citizens.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Terchová” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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