Szepes County
The Zipser Germans or Zipsers (, , ) are a German-speaking (specifically Zipser German-speaking) ethnic group which developed in the Szepes County (; ) of Upper Hungary—today mostly Slovakia—as that region was settled by people from central Germany beginning in the 13th century. Beginning in at least the 18th century, many members of the ethnic group migrated to southern Bukovina, Maramuresch, and Transylvania (today in Romania). Former Slovak President Rudolf Schuster is partly Zipser German.