Toporec

Toporec (Hungarian: Toporc, German: Topporz, Rusyn: Топорец) is a village and municipality in Kežmarok District in the Prešov Region of north Slovakia.

Before the establishment of independent Czechoslovakia in 1918, Toporec was part of Szepes County within the Kingdom of Hungary.

On 26 January 1945, the Red Army dislodged the Wehrmacht from Toporec and it was once again part of Czechoslovakia.

After the end of World War II the German population was expelled according to the Beneš decrees.

[7] The majority of the municipality's population consists of the members of the local Roma community.