Szepes County
Carpathian Germans (, or "felvidéki németek", ) are a group of ethnic Germans. The term was coined by the historian Raimund Friedrich Kaindl (1866–1930), originally generally referring to the German-speaking population of the area around the Carpathian Mountains: the Cisleithanian (Austrian) crown lands of Galicia and Bukovina, as well as the Hungarian half of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy (including Szepes County), and the northwestern (Maramuresch) region of Romania. Since the First World War, only the Germans of Slovakia (the Slovak Germans or "Slowakeideutsche", including the Zipser Germans) and those of Carpathian Ruthenia in Ukraine have commonly been called "Carpathian Germans".