Huncovce
Encyclopedia
Village
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet with the population ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand , Though often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighbourhoods, such as the West Village in Manhattan, New...
and municipality
Municipality
A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...
in Kežmarok District
Kežmarok District
Kežmarok District is a district inthe Prešov Region of eastern Slovakia.Until 1918, the district was almost entirely part of the Hungarian county of Spiš, apart from a small area in the...
in the Prešov Region
Prešov Region
The Prešov Region is one of the eight Slovak administrative regions. It consists of 13 districts.-Geography:It is located in north-eastern Slovakia and has an area of 8,975 km². The region has diverse types of landscapes occurring in Slovakia, but mostly highlands and hilly lands dominate the...
of north Slovakia
Slovakia
The Slovak Republic is a landlocked state in Central Europe. It has a population of over five million and an area of about . Slovakia is bordered by the Czech Republic and Austria to the west, Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east and Hungary to the south...
.
Etymology
In historical recordsHistory
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the village was first mentioned in 1257.
Geography
The municipalityMunicipality
A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...
lies at an altitude
Altitude
Altitude or height is defined based on the context in which it is used . As a general definition, altitude is a distance measurement, usually in the vertical or "up" direction, between a reference datum and a point or object. The reference datum also often varies according to the context...
of 639 metres and covers an area
Area
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of 13.262 km².
It has a population
Population
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of about 2400 people.
People
- David Friesenhausen (1750, Friesenhausen - 1828, Gyulafehérvár/Alba Iulia), a Jewish Bavarian-Hungarian Talmudist, scientist, mathematician, Hebrew-language writer; lived here
- Solomon WinterSolomon WinterSolomon Winter, Hungarian philanthropist; born in the county of Zips, Hungary, in 1778; died at Hunsdorf, in the same county, February 24, 1859, after laboring for sixty years for the advancement of the Jewish race in his locality...
, Jewish Hungarian philanthropist; lived and died here - Izsák Frankl , rabbi
- Mór Billnitzer , a Jewish doctor
- Izsák Billitzer , 1887), rabbi
- Adolf Altmann (1879, born here - 1944, KZ Auschwitz), a Hungarian-German rabbi
- Ernst Bethlenfalvy ; 1879, Kežmarok - 1955, here), natural scientist, zoologist, lived here
- József Czitron ' onMouseout='HidePop("13856")' href="/topics/Hajdúdorog">HajdúdorogHajdúdorogHajdúdorog is a town in Hajdú-Bihar county, in the Northern Great Plain region of eastern Hungary.-Geography:It covers an area of and has a population of 9070 people .-Twinnings: Lubartów, Poland Odorheiu Secuiesc, Romania Podenzano, Italy...
- 1957), rabbi - Meir Ascher Roth , rabbi
- Shmuel Rosenberg , rabbi
- Jewish and other families like Unsdorf, Insdorf, Unsdorfer, Insdorfer, and Hunsdorfer
- Hunsdorfer/Hunfalvy family, originally Zipser German
- Pál Hunfalvy, born Paul Hunsdorfer; 1810, Nagyszalók - 1891, Budapest), a Hungarian Zipser German linguist, ethnographer, historian
- János Hunfalvy, born János Hunsdorfer; 1820, Nagyszalók - 1888, Budapest), a Hungarian Zipser German geographer
See also
- Unsdorf, a Haredi Jewish neighborhood of Jewish Hungarian descent in Jerusalem
Similar place names and family names:
- HunsdorfHunsdorfHunsdorf is a small town in the commune of Lorentzweiler, in central Luxembourg. , the town has a population of 397....
- Hundsdorf, Bavarian placename
- HundsdorfHundsdorfHundsdorf is an Ortsgemeinde – a community belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde – in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.-Location:...
- Hundsdorf(f)er, Hundsdörf(f)er, Hundstorfer (e.g. Rudolf Hundstorfer (born 1951, Vienna), an Austrian politician)
- Hundsdorf
External links
- http://www.statistics.sk/mosmis/eng/run.html