A History of Central Eastern Europe

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DEDICATIONThree of our ancestors choose to leave their life, their friends and their family behind just over a centuryago and made their way to Forest City, Pennsylvania. One of the things that one young man brought withhim was what would morph into the single characteristic we have in common, our last name – SMITH. Allthree brought their hopes for a better life for themselves as well as their children. We don’t know whateach experienced while in Eastern Europe but history tells us that life probably did not hold much in theway of promises for improvement – and thus we can safely surmise that their hopes to improve their lotin life were realized.JOZEF KUTARÑA had been married to his wife KATARÍNAHASAY for just two years when he sailed from Hamburg in 1886. Shewas left 6 months pregnant and caring for their 7 month old son.KATARÍNA made the same trip the following year with both babies.JÓZSEF SCHMID had been18 years old for half a year whenhe sailed from Bremen, Germany,leaving behind the only home heknew - he may have wondered ifhe would ever see it again – hedidn’t. When he disembarked onthe 26 th of June 1901, he had just$12.00 in his pocket.This work is dedicated to my grandfather and my great-grandparents who gambled on theunknown, a land of people from all over the world, one where their small-town customs werepossibly seen as quaint but probably backwards, a land where not only was there a new and hardlanguage to learn, but many languages were spoke. All the ingredients of the great “melting pot”experiment may have been added by the time they arrived, but they certainly hadn’t yet combined.i
IndexCARPATHIAN BASIN – GENERAL HISTORY 1HUNGARY 3ZEMPLEN 9HOSSZU-LAZ 14FELSO-REGMEC 16NAGY-TRNA 17SATORALJAUJHELY 19SLOVAKIA 32SPIŠ 35SPIŠSKÁ STARÁ VES 42LYSÁ NAD DUNAJCOM & MAJERE 60ii
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Page 5 and 6: The borders of the countriesdiscuss
Page 7 and 8: ZEMPLÉN, HUNGARY (JOINT) SPIŠ, SL
Page 9 and 10: THE HUNNIC PEOPLEThe only reason to
Page 11 and 12: At the time that ISTVÁN was crowne
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Page 15 and 16: als at,his,asthetnicity ortake a le
Page 17 and 18: The Compromise of 1867 established
Page 19 and 20: Who counts and who Counts: the diff
Page 21 and 22: THE REINS OF GOVERNMENT - WHO HELD
Page 23 and 24: fungus that causes blight on a wide
Page 25 and 26: HOSSZÚ-LÁZOur grandfather JÓZSEF
Page 27 and 28: feet east of the main road in the r
Page 29 and 30: Located about 12 miles northeast of
Page 31 and 32: (elevation 1,512 ft). This earlier
Page 33 and 34: was NOT satisfied; ISTVÁN forced a
Page 35 and 36: REFORMÁTUS TEMPLOMPetőfi SandorTh
Page 37 and 38: BORTEMPLOMFasor utcaUnique to the t
Page 39 and 40: MAGYAR BAPTIST CHURCH, 917 South Cl
Page 41 and 42: ERZSÉBET KORHÁZ(Elizabeth Hospita
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Page 45 and 46: Coat-of-Arms of the Slovenská repu
Page 47 and 48: The Macedonians reached the Adriati
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ZIPSER STÄDTEBUNDThe ZIPSERBUND or
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TÍZLÁNDZSÁSOK (Hungarian) NOBILE
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COAT-OF-ARMS OF THE PREŠOVSKÝ KRA
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A very smart man decided to include
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Slovak DressPopular motifs found in
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German records it is found as both
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Below is a partial list of th e Sai
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possession of the powerful BERZEVIC
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ČERVENÝ KLÁŠTORThe Cartesian or
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SLOVAK SOCIETYSlovakia has historic
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1490), KING OF HUNGARY and ULÁSZL
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The monastery was severely damaged
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Growing up there was the Roman Cath
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EVANJELICKÁ CIRKEV. A second churc
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LYSÁ NAD DUNAJCOMWith a population
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