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Zakarpattia is Ukraine's window on Central Europe — Hungarian, Slovak, Romanian and Rusyn cultures braid through its valleys. The Palanok Castle in Mukachevo crowns an old volcano and was the seat of Princess Ilona Zrínyi's three-year siege defence (1685–88).
Fun facts
- Palanok sits on an extinct volcano 68 m above the plain.
- Princess Ilona Zrínyi defended the castle for three years against the Habsburgs.
- The Tisza river rises in Zakarpattia's Carpathians.
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