Jovice is a village and municipality in the Rožňava District in the Košice Region of middle-eastern Slovakia. In historical records the village w…Jovice is a village and municipality in the Rožňava District in the Košice Region of middle-eastern Slovakia. In historical records the village was first mentioned in 1352. Jovice arose around the turn of the 13th to the 14th century on the territory of the nearby Krásna Hôrka Castle and was first mentioned in 1352 as Pachapataka. The current name appears in 1427 in the form Jolees; In the same year the Bebek family owned 19 Porta in the village. In the 16th century Wallachians settled in Jovice as part of the Wallachian colonization. In 1773 there lived 22 subjects, 11 serfs and eight Wallachians. In 1828 there were 66 houses and 395 inhabitants who were employed as farmers.
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