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COMITATUS SCEPUSIENSISSZEPES MEGYESCEPUSIUM(Official names in use prior to the late 19th century in subheading)The southern part of SZEPES was conquered by the KINGDOM OF HUNGARY at the end of the 11 th c, when theborder of the Kingdom ended near KEZMAROK. The COMITATUS SCEPUSIENS/S (ROYAL COUNTY OF SZEPES)was created in the 2 nd half of the 12th c. A COMITATE (MEGYE in Hungarian; KRAJ in Slovak) is the equivalentof a county. In the 1250s the border of the Kingdom of Hungary through SZEPES shifted to the north nearPODoLiNEC and in 1260 the border moved northwest ending at the DUNAJEC RIVER where it still is today.Subdivisions: From the beginning of the 15 th c, the COMITATUS/MEGYElKRAJ was subdivided into 3PROCESSUSES/JARAs/OKRES (Latin/Hungarian/Slovak), the lowest-level administrative district, roughly theequivalent of townships. A4th district was added in 1798. In the 2 nd half of the 19th c the number ofPROCESSUSES increased again and by 1918 there were 8 JARAs in SZEPES.JARAs (Hungarian) Administrative center (Hungarian/Slovak/German)GOLNICBANYA GOLNICBANYA GElNICA GbLLNITZIGLO IGLO SPlssKA NovA VES ZIPSER NEUDORFKESMARK KEsMARK KEiMARoK KASMARKLOCSE LeCSE LEVOCA LEUTSCHAU6LUBLO 6lUBlO STARA t:UBOVNA LUBLAUSZEPESOFALU SZEPESOFAlU SPlssKA STARA VES ZIPSER AlTENDORFSZEPESSZOMBAT SZEPtSSZOMBAT SPlssKA SOBOTA GEORGENBERGSZEPESVARALJA SZEPESvARALJA SPISSKE PODHRADIE KIRCHDRAUFAdditionally there were 8 towns designated as RENDEZETT TANAcsu VAROS (urban centers) 5of which alsoserved as the administrative center for their JARAs:GOLNICBANYA GElNICA GOllNITZIGlO SPlssKA NovA VES ZIPSER NEUDORFKEsMARK KEiMAROK KASMARKLOCSE LEVOCA LEUTSCHAUSZEPESvARALJA SPISSKE PODHRADIE KIRCHDRAUFLEIBIC t:UBICA LEUBITZPOPAAD POPRAD DEUTSCHENDORFSZEPESBELA SPlssKA BELA ZIPSER BELASZEPESOLASZI SPISSKE VLACHY WAllENDORFAs the COMITATUS were set to ease the administration ofthe kingdom, each COMITATE had severalsmaller administrative units. In SPI8 these units included 10 self-governing towns called theLanzentraeger villages, the royal free cities ofLeutschau and Kesmark, the ZIPSER STADTEBUNDunder the elected ZIPSER GRAF, the Hungarian nobility governing the rest ofSPI8 as theappointed ALIspAN, ZUPAN, FOISpAN AND COMES and a class ofnobles called the TizUNDzsAsoKmeaning NOBLES WITH TEN LANCES (see page 39).35b
found in the lower right field of blue with a fleur-de-lis, in gold or silver; and the BERZEVICZYfamily coat-of-arms is in the lower left field of red in which a green hill with a golden crown istopped by a mountain goat with golden horns. The 5 th section is a smaller shield centered on thearms. It has a silver field, 3 green hills, and a red bear, looking to the left, holding three goldenears of wheat and, in the right corner, next to the bear's head, a golden 6 pointed star. TheBERZEVICZY family was the noble family in the STARÁ VES region where Nana’s family lived.SPIŠ (Slovak; SZEPES, Magyar;ZIPSER, German) is in the High TatraMountains of northern Slovakia. Before1100 it was part of the Kingdom ofPoland. KÁLMÁN I (1070 - 1116) Kingof Hungary conquers all territory southof the Tatras by 1100 and names theconquered lands “Upper Hungary”; in1108 the loss becomes official whenBOLESLAW KRZYWOUSTY (1086 – 1138)King of Poland, “presents” SPIŠ to theHungarian king. The area was sparselysettled by the pastoral Slovaks, styled“lowland,” until the 1100s when manyGerman-speaking people from Saxony,the Rhineland, Flanders, Bavaria andAustria moved there by the end of the12 th c at the invitation of severalHungarian rulers. References to aSlovak nation or people were suppressedduring this foreign occupation. TheseGermans, known for their craft skillsand mining and farming abilities, settledin more densely populated towns thanthe Slovaks. KING EMERIC I (1174 –1204) of Hungary set up the original administrative Comitatus (counties) beginning in 1200 withthe seat of government located where the largest and best-fortified castle was; they lasted untilthe late 1800s. The original Comitate center for this area of the Tatras is the 800-year-old SPIŠCASTLE. Poland then follows up with its own unique program of Germanization-by-proxy in the1300s; CASIMIR III THE GREAT (1310– 1370) the last PIAST King of Polandanswers his countries need for theskills of the German-speakingpopulation not by going to Saxony,Flanders, Bavaria or Austria, but byluring many of the relocated SPIŠ7Germans north of the Dunajec River.KAKAŠ BERZEVICZY ownedalmost all of the land in the northwestSPIŠ region as the 13 th century began.The Slovak highlanders (those whofled to the mountains to avoid theHuns) were joined by the westward-36
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