 The other two were situated in Bratislava ("Pressburg") and the Spiš ("Zips") region.The area laid within the forested Western Carpathians mountain range around the towns of Kremnitz Kremnica ("Kremnitz") in the south and Nitrianske Pravno ("Deutschproben") in the north.The term "Hauerland" was coined by German folklorists in the 1930s referring to several German placenames in the region bearing the suffix "-hau" ("hew (off)", i.e.