1330 · 1379 Two villages on the road northDve dediny pri ceste na sever

The older of the two settlements appears in writing in 1330 as villa Sudnici, and it belonged at first to the estate of Stročín. In 1379 it passed to the great estate of Makovica, whose seat was the castle above Zborov, and it stayed there for the next three hundred years. Being on the estate of Makovica is the single fact that explains most of Svidník's medieval history: the estate lived off the road over the Carpathians into Poland, and the villages along that road lived off the traffic. Note that a first mention is a fact about a document — people were farming this river junction before any clerk wrote its name down.Staršia z oboch osád sa v písomnostiach objavuje v roku 1330 ako villa Sudnici a patrila najprv panstvu Stročín. V roku 1379 prešla k veľkému panstvu Makovica so sídlom na hrade nad Zborovom a zostala pri ňom ďalších tristo rokov. Príslušnosť k Makovici vysvetľuje takmer celé stredoveké dejiny Svidníka: panstvo žilo z cesty cez Karpaty do Poľska a dediny pri tejto ceste žili z toho, čo po nej chodilo. A pozor — prvá zmienka hovorí o listine, nie o ľuďoch: na sútoku dvoch riek sa hospodárilo dávno predtým, než jeho meno niekto zapísal.