Hodoš (; hu, Hodos or , german: Hodosch) is a village in
Slovenia
Slovenia ( ; sl, Slovenija ), officially the Republic of Slovenia (Slovene: , abbr.: ''RS''), is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the west, Austria to the north, Hungary to the northeast, Croatia to the southeast, an ...
. It is the seat of the
Municipality of Hodoš
The Municipality of Hodoš ( sl, Občina Hodoš ; hu, Hodos község ) is a municipality in Slovenia. The seat of the municipality is the village of Hodoš ( hu, Hodos). It is part of the Prekmurje region. Both Slovene and Hungarian are offic ...
. It is part of the
Prekmurje
Prekmurje (; dialectically: ''Prèkmürsko'' or ''Prèkmüre''; hu, Muravidék) is a geographically, linguistically, culturally and ethnically defined region of Slovenia, settled by Slovenes and a Hungarian minority, lying between the Mur R ...
region.
Name
Hodoš was first mentioned in written sources in 1331 as ''de Hudus-feu'' (and as ''Hodos'' in 1452 and 1453). The name is probably based on the
hypocorism
A hypocorism ( or ; from Ancient Greek: (), from (), 'to call by pet names', sometimes also ''hypocoristic'') or pet name is a name used to show affection for a person. It may be a diminutive form of a person's name, such as ''Izzy'' for I ...
''*Xodošь'', from the Slavic personal name ''*Xodъ''. A less likely possibility is that the name is derived from the Hungarian common noun ''hód'' 'beaver'.
Mass graves
Hodoš is the site of two known
mass graves
A mass grave is a grave containing multiple human corpses, which may or may Unidentified decedent, not be identified prior to burial. The United Nations has defined a criminal mass grave as a burial site containing three or more victims of executi ...
associated with the Second World War and immediate postwar period. The Cold Valley Mass Grave ( sl, Grobišče Mrzla dolina) is located in the woods northwest of Hodoš, southwest of a small lake, in a ravine known as the Cold Valley (, hu, Hideg-völgy). It contains the remains of seven or eight ethnic Hungarians (or possibly German soldiers) that were killed when the
Red Army
The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army ( Russian: Рабо́че-крестья́нская Кра́сная армия),) often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and, afte ...
arrived in April 1945. The Barracks Mass Grave () is located north of Hodoš, about from the Hungarian border. It contains the remains of a group of Hungarians that illegally crossed the border in 1945. They were shot and their bodies were thrown into an abandoned well.
Notable people
Notable people that were born or lived in Hodoš include:
*Jurij Cipot (1794–1834), religious writer
[Savnik, Roman, ed. 1980. ''Krajevni leksikon Slovenije'', vol. 4. Ljubljana: Državna založba Slovenije. pp. 296–297.]
*Rudolf Cipot (1825–1901), religious writer
*
János Kardos (a.k.a. Janoš Kardoš)
(1801–1875), Lutheran priest, teacher, and writer
References
External links
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Hodoš on GeopediaHodoš municipal site
Populated places in the Municipality of Hodoš
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