Upper Hungary (Hungarian: Felső-Magyarország or Felvidék, Slovak: Horné Uhorsko) is the usual English translation for the area that was historically the northern part of the Kingdom of Hungary, now mostly present-day Slovakia. The population of Upper Hungary was mixed and mainly consisted of Slovaks, Hungarians, Germans and Ruthenians. The first complex demographic data are from the 18th century, from which Slovaks constituted the majority population of Upper Hungary. Slovaks called this territory "Slovensko" (Slovakia), which term appears in written documents from the 15th century, but it was not precisely defined and the region inhabited by Slovaks held no distinct legal, constitutional, or political status within Upper Hungary. This region has been often called "Felvidék" (Upland) in the Hungarian literature.
Famous quotes containing the word upper:
“The enemy are no match for us in a fair fight.... The young men ... of the upper class are kind-hearted, good-natured fellows, who are unfit as possible for the business they are in. They have courage but no endurance, enterprise, or energy. The lower class are cowardly, cunning, and lazy. The height of their ambition is to shoot a Yankee from some place of safety.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)