Huncovce (; hu, Hunfalva, til 1902: Hunfalu, german: Hunsdorf, Hunszdorf, Hundsdorf in der Zips, Hunzdorf, Hunesdorf, yi, אונסדאָרףֿ ''Unsdorf'', he, אונסדורף, la, Villa Canis, Hunisvilla) is a

village A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...

and

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

Kežmarok District Kežmarok District (Slovak: ''okres Kežmarok'') is a district in the Prešov Region of eastern Slovakia. Its seat, cultural and economic center is Kežmarok, the traditional center of the historic Spiš region. The Kežmarok district was establi ...

in the

Prešov Region The Prešov Region, also Priashiv Region ( sk, Prešovský kraj, ; hu, Eperjesi kerület; uk, Пряшівський край) is one of the eight Slovak administrative regions and consists of 13 districts (okresy) and 666 municipalities, 23 o ...

of north

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Geography

The

lies at an

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of 639 metres and covers an

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of 13.262 km². It has a

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of about 2400 people.

History

The village belonged to a German language island. The German population was expelled in 1945.

People

David Friesenhausen David ben Meir Cohen Friesenhausen (1756–1828) was a German-Hungarian astronomer, ''maskil'', mathematician, and rabbi. Friesenhausen was one of the first proponents of ''Torah im Derech Eretz'', a philosophy of Orthodox Judaism that formalizes a ...

(1750, Friesenhausen - 1828, Gyulafehérvár/Alba Iulia), a Jewish Bavarian-Hungarian Talmudist, scientist, mathematician, Hebrew-language writer; lived hereJewish_Encyclopedia
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accessed 27 February 2014. * Solomon Winter ( hu, Winter Salamon; 1778, ?, in the Szepes - ), Jewish Hungarian philanthropist; lived and died here

References

Genealogical resources

The records for genealogical research are available at the state archive "Statny Archiv in Levoca, Slovakia" * Roman Catholic church records (births/marriages/deaths): 1675-1899 (parish A) * Lutheran church records (births/marriages/deaths): 1784-1944 (parish B)

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