Kamienka | |
Settlement Type: | Municipality |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type2: | Region |
Subdivision Name2: | Prešov |
Subdivision Type3: | District |
Subdivision Name3: | Stará Ľubovňa |
Pushpin Map: | Slovakia Prešov Region#Slovakia |
Pushpin Relief: | 1 |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Kamienka in the Prešov Region##Location of Kamienka in Slovakia |
Coordinates: | 49.3317°N 20.6139°W |
Established Title: | First mentioned |
Established Date: | 1342 |
Area Total Km2: | 29.166 |
Elevation M: | 588 |
Population Total: | 1409 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Kamienka (rue|Камюнка|Kamiunka; uk|Камйонка|Kamionka; hu|Kövesfalva, de|Stein) is a village and municipality in Stará Ľubovňa District in the Prešov Region of northern Slovakia. The village is traditionally inhabited by Rusyns, as one of their westernmost settlements.
In historical records the village was first mentioned in 1342. Before the establishment of independent Czechoslovakia in 1918, Kamienka was part of Szepes County within the Kingdom of Hungary. From 1939 to 1945, it was part of the Slovak Republic. On 25 January 1945, the Red Army dislodged the Wehrmacht from Kamienka and it was once again part of Czechoslovakia.
The municipality lies at an altitude of and covers an area of . It has a population of about 1409 people.
The records for genealogical research are available at the state archive "Statny Archiv in Levoca, Slovakia"
Here were born two Greek-Catholic bishops, Ivan Bradach (1732–1772) and his younger brother Mykhaylo Bradach (1748–1815)