Chop, Ukraine
Chop
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Chop (
Yiddish: טשאָפּ) is a city located in Zakarpattia Oblast (province) of western Ukraine, near the borders of Slovakia and Hungary. It is separated from the Hungarian town of Záhony by the river Tisza by being situated on its right bank. It is located within Uzhhorod Raion. Today, the population is 8,626 (2022 estimate).[2]
Toponymy
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There are several alternative names used for this city:
Yiddish
: טשאָפּ.
History
Like the rest of Transcarpathia, Chop was part of Hungary until 1920, when, as a result of the post-World War I
Czechoslovakia–Soviet Union relations, it became part of the expanded Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
(now Ukraine).
Demographics
According to the
Ukrainian national census, Chop had a population in 2001 of 8,919, of whom 40% were Ukrainians, 39.2% ethnic Hungarians and 20.8% Roma, Russians, Slovaks, Belarusians, and Jews
.
Features
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Chop is an important railway junction in Ukraine where the Lviv-Stryi-Budapest railway line meets the Lviv-Uzhhorod-Košice line. There is also a line running eastwards to Romania via Korolevo and Halmeu although there are currently no regular passenger services.
Near Chop, there are also international railway and highway
border crossings to Hungary and Slovakia and also to the westernmost point of Ukraine. The first town across the border in Slovakia is Čierna nad Tisou while in Hungary, the first city is Záhony
.
Notable people
- András Pándy, serial killer
- J. Peters, political activist
See also
- Chop railway station
- Chop - Tysa
References
- ^ "Chop (Zakarpattia Oblast, Uzhhorod Raion)". weather.in.ua (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 25 December 2018.
- ^ Чисельність наявного населення України на 1 січня 2022 [Number of Present Population of Ukraine, as of January 1, 2022] (PDF) (in Ukrainian and English). Kyiv: State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 July 2022.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Чоп.
- Chop in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine
- Chop (Чоп) of Ukraine 1:100,000 topographic maps
- Chop - ShtetLink
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