Jovice

Jovice (Jólész) is a village and municipality in the Rožňava District in the Košice Region of middle-eastern Slovakia.

History
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 family "Bebek" 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.

Before the establishment of independent Czechoslovakia in 1918, Jovice was part of Gömör and Kishont County within the Kingdom of Hungary. From 1938 to 1944, it was once again part of Hungary as a result of the First Vienna Award.

Geography
The village lies at an altitude of 280 metres and covers an area of 10.071 km². It has a population of about 695 people.

The community is located in the Slovak Karst in the valley basin Rožňavská kotlina, below the Silica Karst plateau to the south. The plateau is separated from the village itself by the small river Čremošná, which flows into the Sajó / Slaná at Brzotín. The center of the village is at an altitude of 280 m and is five and a half kilometers from Rožňava.

Neighboring communities are Krásnohorské Podhradie in the north and northeast, Krásnohorská Dlhá Lúka in the east and southeast, Silica in the south, Brzotín in the southwest and west and Rožňava in the Northwest.

Culture
The village has a public library and a football pitch.

Population
According to the 2011 census, Jovice had 726 inhabitants, including 546 Hungarians, 130 Slovaks and 21 Roma. 29 residents gave no information about Ethnicity.

439 residents committed themselves to the Roman Catholic Church, 80 residents to the Reformed Church, 51 residents to the Evangelical Church A. B., five residents to the Evangelical Methodist Church and one resident each to the Jehovah's Witnesses and one to the Greek Catholic Church; one resident professed a different denomination. 93 inhabitants had no denomination and the denomination of 55 inhabitants was not determined.

Genealogical resources
The records for genealogical research are available at the state archive "Statny Archiv in Kosice, Slovakia"


 * Roman Catholic church records (births/marriages/deaths): 1686-1895 (parish B)
 * Lutheran church records (births/marriages/deaths): 1632-1925 (parish B)
 * Reformed church records (births/marriages/deaths): 1773-1943 (parish B)