Carpathian Germans: Difference between revisions

'''Carpathian Germans''' ({{lang-de|Karpatendeutsche, Mantaken}}, {{lang-hu|kárpátnémetek}} or ''felvidéki németek'', {{lang-sk|karpatskí Nemci}}, {{lang-ro|Germani carpatini}}) are a group of [[Germans|ethnic Germans]] in [[Central and Eastern Europe]]. The term was coined by the historian [[:de:Raimund Friedrich Kaindl|Raimund Friederich Kaindl]] (1866–1930), originally generally referring to the [[German language|German-speaking]] population of the area around the [[Carpathian Mountains]]: the [[Cisleithania]]n (Austrian) crown lands of [[Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria|Galicia]] and [[Bukovina]], as well as the [[Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen|Hungarian]] half of the [[Austria-Hungary|Austro-Hungarian monarchy]] (including [[Szepes County]]), and the northwestern ([[Maramureș|Maramuresch]]) region of [[Kingdom of Romania|Romania]]. Since the [[World War I|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''.