Felvidék (Upper
Hungary; formerly called Felfôld, or Felsômagyarország):
the mountainous
northern part of historical Hungary, i.e., the northernmost part
of the Hungarian-speaking regions of the Carpathian Basin. It
was only in the late nineteenth century that the term "Felvidék"
came to be a synonym for "Felföld" and "Felsômagyarország".
Since Hungary's dismemberment in 1920 by the Treaty of Trianon,
the term "Felvidék" has come to refer only to
the Hungarian and Slovak-inhabited parts of Upper Hungary that
now belong to Slovakia, as well as to the part of the Kisalföld
that now lies in Slovakia.