Province of 24 Szepes Towns
| Province of 24 Szepes Towns | |||||||||||
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| Seat of Szepes County | |||||||||||
| 1271–1412 | |||||||||||
| Capital | Levoča (before 1344) | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
• Granting of the privileges to local nobility by king Stephen V | 1271 | ||||||||||
• Spiš Pledge and partition of the seat | 8 November 1412 | ||||||||||
| Contained within | |||||||||||
| • Country | Kingdom of Hungary | ||||||||||
| • County | Szepes County | ||||||||||
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The Province of 24 Szepes Towns, also known as the Union of 24 Szepes Towns, and until c. 1344, as the Community of Szepesian Saxons, and the Province of Szepesian Saxons, was a seat, an autonomous administrative division, within Szepes County, Kingdom of Hungary. It existed from 1271 to 1412. On 8 November 1412, with the Spiš Pledge, in which Hungary had pledged part of Szepes County to the Kingdom of Poland, with the province was divided into Province of 11 Szepes Towns in Hungary, and Province of 13 Spisz Towns in Poland.