Ricse (sometimes erroneously written as Risce ) is a village in the Tokaj wine region in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén , in Eastern Hungary . Prior to World War II Ricse was home to a thriving Jewish community. The founder of Paramount Pictures, Adolph Zukor , was born in Ricse in 1873 before emigrating to the United States in 1889.
12-507: Established in 1940, the camp at Ricse was Zemplén County 's largest internment camp . Prisoners were mainly Jews from Hungary , Poland , Slovakia , and other refugees rounded up by the Hungarian authorities. Prisoners who were unable to prove their Hungarian citizenship were also interned there. The inmates included men, women, and children. The site consisted of military barracks containing sleeping quarters with cots and blankets. The camp
24-575: A small northern part (about a quarter) of Sátoraljaújhely to the northeast of the Ronyva ( Rožňava ) stream in Slovakia, now a small village with its own artificial Slovak name Slovenské Nové Mesto . Tokaj Tokaj ( Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈtokɒj] ) is a historical town in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county, Northern Hungary , 54 kilometers from county capital Miskolc . It
36-555: Is now a separate village called Slovenské Nové Mesto). Zemplén was one of the oldest counties of the Kingdom of Hungary. In the aftermath of World War I, in 1920 by the Treaty of Trianon the northern part of Zemplén county became part of newly formed Czechoslovakia . The southern half (including the bigger part of the divided Sátoraljaújhely ) stayed in Hungary as the county of Zemplén. Following
48-484: Is one of the seven larger wine regions of Hungary (Hungarian: Tokaji borrégió). Hegyalja means "foothills" in Hungarian, and this was the original name of the region. The region consists of 28 named villages and 11,149 hectares of classified vineyards, of which an estimated 5,500 are currently planted. Tokaj has been declared a World Heritage Site in 2002 under the name Tokaj Wine Region Historic Cultural Landscape. However, its fame long predated this distinction because it
60-575: Is the centre of the Tokaj-Hegyalja wine district where Tokaji wine is produced. The wine-growing area was first mentioned by the name Tokaj in 1067. The town itself was first mentioned in documents in 1353. Its first castle was a motte , which was destroyed during the Mongol invasion of Hungary. By the 14th century, the town already had a stone castle, belonging to the Diósgyőr estate . After 1450, Tokaj
72-620: The 13th century also Sárospatak (in Slovak : Potok, meaning stream, brook, hence the alternative name of the county comitatus de Potok ). Since the Late Middle Ages the capital was the town of Zemplén, and since 1748 was Sátoraljaújhely (which is now divided between Slovakia and Hungary by the Ronyva/Roňava stream; the Hungarian part is known in Slovak as Nové Mesto pod Šiatrom and the Slovak part
84-666: The provisions of the First Vienna Award , an additional part became part of Hungary again in November 1938. The Trianon borders were restored after World War II, and the Hungarian county Zemplén merged with Abaúj, the most of Borsod-Gömör and a little part of Szabolcs counties to form the present Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County . In the early 20th century, the subdivisions of Zemplén county were: The towns of Sátoraljaújhely , Sárospatak , Tokaj and Szerencs are now in Hungary, except for
96-469: The town prospered, but when the World Wars came, it suffered greatly, losing its importance and town status. Even its role in wine trade was taken over by Sátoraljaújhely . Tokaj was granted town status again in 1986 and it again started to prosper. Now, the town is a popular tourist attraction. Tokaj wine region is a historical wine region located in northeastern Hungary and southeastern Slovakia . It
108-579: Was an administrative county ( comitatus ) of the Kingdom of Hungary . The northern part of its territory is now situated in eastern Slovakia ( Zemplín region), while a smaller southern portion of the former county belongs to Hungary , as part of Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County . Zemplén county shared borders with Poland (during some periods the with the Austrian crownland Galicia ) and the Hungarian counties Sáros , Abaúj-Torna , Borsod , Szabolcs and Ung . It
120-594: Was fenced in and guarded by armed Hungarians, possibly soldiers. In the summer of 1941, most of the internees were transferred from Ricse to Körösmező and then to Kamianets-Podilskyi in German-occupied Ukraine, where they were murdered at the end of August 1941. This Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Zempl%C3%A9n County Zemplén ( Hungarian : Zemplén , Slovak : Zemplín , German : Semplin, Semmlin , Latin : Zemplinum )
132-590: Was situated in the easternmost strip of what is now Slovakia (except for the region between Vihorlatské vrchy and the Latorica river), plus a strip along the Bodrog and Tisza rivers in present-day Hungary. The rivers Laborc and Bodrog flowed through the county. Its area was 6,269 km around 1910. Initially, the capital of the county was the Zemplín Castle (Hungarian: Zempléni vár , Slovak: Zemplínsky hrad ), in
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#1732847772486144-603: Was the property of the Hunyadi family , so after Matthias Hunyadi became king, the town became a royal estate. In 1526, after the Ottomans captured Petervarad (modern day Petrovaradin , Serbia ), Cistercians from Petervarad and its surroundings relocated to Tokaj and greatly improved wine making in the area. In 1705, Francis II Rákóczi ordered the castle to be destroyed. After the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 ,
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