Korolevo

Korolevo (Ukrainian: Королевe, Ukrainian: Королев, Hungarian: Királyháza) is an urban type settlement on Tisza River in Zakarpattia Oblast, Vynohradiv Raion, Ukraine.

History

The ruins of a castle in Korolevo.

At the end of 12th century there existed a settlement of Slavs. On the hill was built a wooden royal hunting house, from which Koroleve ("royal village") got its name. In the 14th century at the site a stone castle named Nyalab was built. In 1672 the castle was destroyed.

In 1910, the village in the Kingdom of Hungary in the county Ung, had 3,167 inhabitants, of whom 2,224 were Hungarians and 932 Ruthenians. in 1938 Koroleve joined the then newly formed Czechoslovakia (as part of the Subcarpathian Ruthenia). In 1944 close to the end of World War II, it ended up in the Ukrainian SSR as part the USSR. In 1947 the village got the status of an urban type settlement. In 1991 it became part of an independent Ukraine.

References

• Települések - Verbőc (Verbovec) - Nagyszőlősi járás (Hungarian)
• Photos (Hungarian)
• Királyháza anno (Hungarian)
• Szent Ferenc Óvoda (Hungarian)
• Облікова картка на сайті ВР України (Ukrainian)