Spis
Spiš (in Latin:
Scepusium, in Polish:
Spisz, in German:
Zips, in Hungarian:
Szepés) is the name of a historic administrative county in northern eastern
Slovakia from a time when Slovakia was part of
Hungary. Today only an informal designation of the corresponding territory. Situated between the
High Tatra and the
Dunajec river in the north, the springs of the
Váh river in the west, the Slovenské rudohorie mountains in the south, and the towns (including) Jaklovce and Stará Ľubovňa in the east.
Historically a very prosperous region, nowadays a very poor region of Slovakia. Till WW II largely German population.