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Zemplin

Zemplín (in Latin: Zemplinum, in German: Semplin, in Hungarian: Zemplén) is the name of a historic administrative county in eastern Slovakia from a time when Slovakia was part of Hungary. Today in Slovakia only an informal designation of the corresponding territory. Situated in the easternmost strip of Slovakia (except for the region between Vihorlatské vrchy and the Latorica river) next to Šariš and Abov, plus a strip along the Bodrog and Tisza river in present-day Hungary.