Dukla Pass

Dukla Pass
Dukla Pass memorial.

The Dukla Pass (Slovak: Dukliansky priesmyk, Polish: Przełęcz Dukielska, Hungarian: Duklai-hágó; 502 m AMSL) is a strategically significant mountain pass in the Laborec Highlands of the Outer Eastern Carpathians, on the border between Poland and Slovakia, and close to the western border of Ukraine.

Dukla Pass is the lowest mountain pass in the Carpathian mountains main range. Located south of Dukla in Poland and northeast of Prešov in Slovakia, the pass is acknowledged as an area where Eastern and Western Slavic cultures meet.

In the seventeenth century, it was the haunt of a bandit and folk hero, Andrij Savka. Dukla Pass was the scene of bitterly contested battles on the Eastern Fronts of both World War I and World War II (Battle of the Dukla Pass).

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Coordinates: 49°25′05″N 21°41′46″E / 49.418°N 21.696°E / 49.418; 21.696


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