small beautiful place with Carpathian minority that speaks good German karpatendeutsche operate a campsite a small market shop, signage and signposts also in German on hiking trails.
As Carpathian Germans (partly Mantaken), the German-speaking population in Slovakia and the Carpatho-Ukraine is called. The term was coined in the early 20th century by the historian and ethnologist Raimund Friedrich Kaindl and refers to the mountain range of the Carpathians.
Begriffsgeschichte
At first, among those Germans in the k. u. k. Understood in the "diversion", away from the closed German-speaking area: in Galicia and Bukovina, in the Hungarian part of the empire (especially Slovakia and Transylvania), in Bosnia and Herzegovina. However, with the territorial changes resulting from the 1919/20 Paris suburb contracts, this definition became unusual. Since then, the term increasingly referred only to the western and central Carpathians (Slovakia and Carpatho-Ukraine).