Milhosť (german: Mitterdeutschdorf or ; hu, Migléc, formerly , until 1899 ) is a

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and

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Košice-okolie District Košice–okolie District (''okres Košice–okolie''; hu, Kassa-vidéki járás) is a district in the Košice Region of eastern Slovakia. It surrounds the city of Košice, which serves as the district seat although it does not belong to the dist ...

in the

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of eastern

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. It is situated 21 km from Slovakia's second biggest city,

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. Milhosť is surrounded by two neighbouring villages

Kechnec Kechnec (german: Kechnetz; hu, Kenyhec) is a village in eastern Slovakia. Geography The village lies at an altitude of 180 metres and covers an area of 10.211 km². The municipality is part of the administrative units Košice-okolie Distric ...

and

Seňa Seňa ( hu, Abaújszina) (1249 ''Schena'', 1251 ''Scyna, Zyna'', 1255 ''Scynna'', 1402 ''Czena'') is a village and municipality in Košice-okolie District in the Košice Region of eastern Slovakia. Etymology According to István Kniezsa, the na ...

. Moreover, it is a border crossing village between

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(Tornyosnémeti) and Slovakia (Milhosť).

Etymology

The name comes from a Slavic personal name ''Milgost'' (see also e.g. ''Gemerský Milhosť'', ''Milhosťov'', ''Milhostice'', ''Milhošť''). It got its second name ''Németi'' (in Hungarian "German") after the arrival German colonists. Village names:. * 1403- Felsekysnemethy, Myglez * 1405- Kysnemety, Mikliz * 1415- Kis Németi, Miglész * 1427- Migles * 1512- Kis Nemethi * 1523- Migleznemethy * 1746- Miglécz * 1773- 1786, 1790, 1808- Miglécz * 1863- 1902, 1920- 1938- Migléc * 1907-1913, 1938- 1945- Miglécnémeti * 1945- 1947 Migléc * 1948- 1964 Milhosť * 1964- 1985 Hraničná pri Hornáde/border crossing village next to Hornád/ (Milhosť + Kechnec) * 1993 Milhosť (gained its independence), Migléc

History

The first historical records of Milhosť are from

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At this time

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colonists, who came during the years 1205-1209 A.D., were living in this area. The village had not been an independent ham in the 13th century. It was just a settlement which belonged to a village called Középnémeti. The first written record of Milhosť appears in the 14th century, which mentioned a St. Michael´s chapel from 1322,however the chapels' location is not known today. The name of the village changed over the years. It varied from Felsekysnemethy to its present form Milhosť. Only

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were living in this area till 1500 AD. At the beginning of the 16th century Hungarian families arrived and as a result the number of the German population decreased. There are no records of German families after 1600 AD but there was an increase in Slovak settlers. In 1720 AD the number of Hungarian and Slovak inhabitants was equal. The arrival of the first

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s began in 1787 and

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in the year 1850.

Coat of arms

The seal of Milhosť ioriginates from the year 1839 with the inscription ''"Miglécz helység petsétye 1839"'' (seal of the village Milhosť 1839) The village's coat of arms, from the 1990s, was made according to the seal's pattern. Two men can be seen on the coat of arms standing on green grass with hats on their heads. One of them is holding a flail and the other one a scythe. A share and a coulter are placed between them, which are golden coloured. A golden sun is shining between the men on red background.

The Graveyard

The Graveyard in Milhosť is divided between 3 owners: the western part belongs to the municipality, the left one to the

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church and the right to the Reformed church. A mortuary is part of the cemetery since 28 August 1994. In the graveyard, there are graves with old ornamented wooden

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called as ''"gombfa"''. Three types of those tomb-stones were used among the Reformed: different ones for men, women and children.

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used wooden crosses. Stone tomb-stones also can be seen from the years 1899, 1900, 1906... Forgotten Jewish tombstones in Migléc (2006)

Skulls are carved on the top of a pair of tomb stones with an opening; these are the oldest tombstones in the graveyard. Because of their condition the inscriptions on them cannot be read. A Jewish cemetery is part of the municipality too. Not many people know about it, which is why it is not well maintained.

Geography

The

lies at an altitude of 166 metres and covers an area of 7.782 km². It has a

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of 344 people (2001).

Ethnicity

Approximately half of the population is Slovak (54.9%) in

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, the other half is Magyar (41.8%) and

Culture

The village has a public

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and a

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A non-professional drama club functions in the village, associated with the

CSEMADOK CSEMADOK, also written Csemadok, is a cultural society of ethnic Hungarians in Slovakia. CSEMADOK was formed on March 5, 1949 in Bratislava as a part of the Czechoslovak National Front, an umbrella statewide organization. The name was abbreviatio ...

(Csehszlovákiai Magyar Dolgozók Kulturális Szövetsége / Czechoslovak Hungarian Workers´ Cultural Association), with around 10-15 Hungarian speaking members. A variety is performed by them each winter to entertain the villagers. A couple of the members are invited to various occasion to the neighbouring villages, to Hungarian villages as well, to perform small plays or sing.

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