Carpathian Germans

Carpathian Germans
Karpatendeutsche

Flag used by Carpathian Germans' Territorial Association[1]
Total population
4,690 (2011 census)[2]
Regions with significant populations
Bratislava, Košice, Spiš, Hauerland
Languages
Slovak, German
Religion
Roman Catholicism 55.5%, Atheism 21.0%, Lutheranism 14.2%, and 9.3 other religions
Related ethnic groups
Germans Austrians Germans of Hungary Germans of Romania

Carpathian Germans (German: Karpatendeutsche or Mantaken, Hungarian: kárpátnémetek or felvidéki németek, Slovak: Karpatskí Nemci, Romanian: Germani carpatini) are a group of ethnic Germans in Central and Eastern Europe. The term was coined by the historian Raimund Friederich 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.