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History of Michalovce


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The first known settlers in the area around Michalovce were in the Neolithic. The Slavs arrived in the area in the fifth century. The area was part of the Great Moravian empire in the ninth century. Michalovce is the legendary place of Laborec death. From the tenth century onwards, the region had been part of Hungary. After the Ottoman conquest in south central Hungary in the sixteenth century, Hungary was divided, and present-day Michalovce became part of the Eastern Hungarian Kingdom, and later Royal Hungary. The
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