Upper Hungary

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Upper Hungary (Hungarian: Felvidék, lit. 'Upland'; Slovak: Horná zem, Horný vidiek, or Horniaky) is a historical region that was the northern part of the Kingdom of Hungary and is now mostly a part of modern Slovakia. The region has also been called Felső-Magyarország (lit. 'Upper Hungary'; Slovak: Horné Maďarsko). However, the Slovaks use the term Horné Uhorsko 'Upper Hungary', with the term Hungary having no connection to the "land of the Magyars" etymology. During the Habsburg–Ottoman wars (1526–1791), Upper Hungary meant only the northeastern parts of the Hungarian Kingdom. The northwestern regions (present-day western and central Slovakia) belonged to "Lower Hungary". Sometime during the 18th or 19th century, Upper Hungary began to imply the whole northern regions of the kingdom. The population of Upper Hungary was multiethnic and mainly consisted of Slovaks and Hungarians but also Germans, Ashkenazi Jews, and Ruthenians. The first complex demographic data of the region are from the...

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