Lendak

Lendak
Lendak
Village
	Chapel in Lendak, view on the village
	Lendak Location in Slovakia
	Coordinates: 49°14′39″N 20°21′20″E / 49.24417°N 20.35556°E
Country	Slovakia
Region	Prešov
District	Kežmarok
First mentioned	1288
Area
• Total	19.65 km2 (7.59 sq mi)
Elevation	744 m (2,441 ft)
Population (2021)
• Total	5,454
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	059 07
Area code	+421 52
Website	http://lendak.sk

Lendak (Hungarian: Lándok, ‹See Tfd›German: Landeck, Goral: Ľyndak, Rusyn: Лендак) is a village and municipality in Kežmarok District in the Prešov Region of north Slovakia. It is inhabited by Gorals

Geography

The municipality lies at an altitude of 749 metres and covers an area of 19.658 km². It has a population of about 5400 people.

In historical records the village was first mentioned in 1288. Before the establishment of independent Czechoslovakia in 1918, Lendak was part of Szepes County within the Kingdom of Hungary. From 1939 to 1945, it was part of the Slovak Republic. On 27 January 1945, the Red Army dislodged the Wehrmacht from Lendak in the course of the Western Carpathian offensive and it was once again part of Czechoslovakia.

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