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Village Zboj is situated in the northwestern part of the Bukovské hills, inside a beautiful Carpathian nature in the valley of the Zbojský stream. It borders on the Ukraine in the southeast and on Poland in the north. Area of the village has 5055ha with 356m to 1188m of height above sea level. The whole area lies in the National Park Poloniny. To the places very frequently visited belong the National Nature Reservations Riaba skala and Stinská where a cave was discovered in 2003. There are also the Nature Reservations Bahno, Stinská slatina and Borsušiny.
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The first written mention about Zboj comes from the year 1567. The monument of village is the Church of St Nicolas the Bishop (1706). It is a three-room wooden cabin church with presbyterium with a nave of square ground. The Church was transported to the museum in Bardejov in 1966. It is considered to be one of the most beautiful wooden churches in the Carpathian Mountains.
Peter Lodij, the philosopher and jurist, was born here in 1764.
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Village has 480 inhabitants nowadays.
There is a carbonic spring in the village.
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