Hont
Hont (in Latin: Honthum, in German: Hont, in Hungarian: Honth) is the name of a historic administrative county in southern
Slovakia (and in northern present-day
Hungary) from a time when Slovakia was part of Hungary. Today in Slovakia only an informal designation of the corresponding territory. Situated between (including)
Banska Stiavnica and the
Danube (along the rivers Krupinica and then Ipeľ), except for the region around the town of Krupina.