Šariš is the traditional name of a region located in northeastern Slovakia. It covers the territory of the former Sáros County. Historically, it was a county in the north-eastern part of the Kingdom of Hungary, partially overlapping with today's Slovak Šariš region. Interestingly, these areas were part of Poland until the first half of the 11th century. In Polish and Hungarian documents one can find information that in the southern part of this region there was the Polish castle of Castrum Salis. In the second half of the 11th century, the Hungarians began to conquer more and more areas of this part of Europe. The Poles managed to keep the northern area of Šariš until the first half of the 13th century. Since then, the region has been the extreme northern part of the Hungarian county of Novi Castri (Abaújvár). The original seat of the poviat was the Šariš Castle, and from the 17th century, Presov. At that time, Šariš was ruled by various Hungarian magnate families, but the Rakoczi family ruled the longest. After the Turks had invaded Central Europe, the Habsburgs, who ruled until 1918, took power in Hungary.
The roots of the people living in this region go back to the former Slavic tribes and Avars (a nomadic people who came to this area in the 6th century), as well as the Polish and Ruthenian tribes. The German migration, which took place in the fourteenth century and the occupation of Šariš by the Hungarians and Habsburgs, had a huge impact on the local culture and customs.
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