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- Zips Country (Spis Region)
- former Hungarian comitate (district) in the eastern High Tatra Mountains
- Zips Country belogs today mostly to Slovakia
- own names:
· German: Zips
· Slovak: Spiš
· Hungarian: Szepes
· Polish: Spisz
· Latin: Scepusium
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• Coat of Arms
• Meaning/Origin of the Coat of Arms
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• History
• Origin of the Country's Name
The Zips Country (Spis region) probably did not have
its own flag, but it did have a coat of arms,
from which the country's colours can be derived.
Coat of arms (Blazon) of the District of Zips,
Source: Wikipedia (DE)
The coat of armsof Zips Country shows, among others, typical Hungarian heraldry, so arises the green triple-mountain three, but also the stylized crown of Hungary, and further a lily that should probably remember the Hungarian kings from the House of Anjou in the 13th and 14th century.
Source: Volker Preuß
interaktive Map of Austria-Hungary with the Zips Country (ca. 1910):
Map: Volker Preuß
Location of the former district in today's Slovakia:
Source: Kristo, licensed under Creative Commons, Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license
Area: 1.410 square miles (1910)
Inhabitants: 173.000 (1910), thereof 58 % Slovaks, 25 % Germans, 8 % Russins (Ukrainians), 6 % Hungarians
Density of Population: 123 inh./sq.mi. (1910)
Capital: Leutschau (Levoca)
today's Languages: Slovak, some German
Time Zone: GMT - 1 h
Source: Wikipedia (DE)
ca. 1050 · conquest by the Kingdom of Hungary
12th century · formation of the Comitate of Zips
1242 · Mongol invasion, the country is devastated, in the following years were German miners and settlers (from Silesia, Saxony and Thuringia were brought into the country by the Hungarian king, founding of numerous towns and cities, establish of the 24 Federal Zips Cities
1412 · the confederation of the 24 Federal Zips Cities becomes resolved, 13 of them become pledged to Poland, the remaining cities come in economic decline
1772 · First Partition of Poland, the 13 cities come back to Hungary
1919 · on the occasion of the dissolution of Austria-Hungary, Zips Country comes to Czechoslovakia, Poland occupies 75 square miles of Zips Country
1923 · Zips Country becomes divided between bordering districts
1939–1945 · former Zips Country becomes a part of the independent Slovakia
1944–1945 · Second World War, flight of the mostly German population, from the Red Army, they mostly returned after the war
1946 · expulsion and deportation of the German and Hungarian population, about 1000 Germans remain until today in the region
Source: Wikipedia (D), Volker Preuß
The term "Zips Country" is derived from the castle of Zips. It was the administrative center of the region, especially since the time of the Mongol invasion, until the capital became Leutschau. Since 1780 the castle is abandoned and in decline.
Source: Wikipedia (DE), Volker Preuß
