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Spiš (Polish: Spisz; Hungarian: Szepesség or Szepes; German: Zips) [a] is a region in north-eastern Slovakia, with a very small area in south-eastern Poland (more specifically encompassing 14 villages). [b] Spiš is an informal designation of the territory, but it is also the name of one of the 21 official tourism regions of Slovakia.
1890 163,291: 106,346 (65.13% ... (except the area of The Spis Castle and the Church of Saint Martin) in the region. ... Poprad is the only river in contemporary ...
Before 1464, it was owned by the kings of Hungary, until the time of King Matthias Corvinus, then (until 1528) by the Zápolya family, the Thurzó family (1531–1635), the Csáky family (1638–1945), and (since 1945) by the state of Czechoslovakia and then Slovakia.
The cathedral was built between 1245 and 1273 in the Romanesque style with subsequent Gothic extensions. It is one of the largest and most interesting Romanesque monuments in Slovakia. It contains many mediaeval carved altars and is the resting place of many lords of Spiš Castle.
Initially, Slovakia experienced more difficulty than the Czech Republic in developing a modern market economy. Slovakia joined NATO on 29 March 2004 and the EU on 1 May 2004. Slovakia was, on 10 October 2005, for the first time elected to a two-year term on the UN Security Council (for 2006–2007).
Spišská Belá (German: Zipser Bela; Hungarian: Szepesbéla; Rusyn: Спіська Бела; Polish: Biała Spiska) is a town in the Kežmarok District in the Prešov Region in Spiš in northern Slovakia. Prior to World War I, it was in Szepes county in the Kingdom of Hungary.
Spišská Kapitula (German: Zipser Kapitel, Hungarian: Szepeshely or Szepesi Káptalan) (both meaning the "Spiš Chapter house") is an exceptionally well-preserved ecclesiastical town on the outskirts of Spišské Podhradie, Slovakia, and overlooking Spiš Castle.
Spišský Hrhov (Slovak pronunciation: [ˈspiʂskiː ˈɦr̩ɦɔw]; Hungarian: Görgő, pronounced [ˈɡørɡøː]) is a municipality and village in the Spiš region of Slovakia, between Levoča and Spišské Podhradie in Levoča District. It has a population of 1800, of which 350 are Roma, well integrated in the local community. [5]