Hauerland

== English == === Etymology === From German Hauerland; see there for more. === Proper noun === Hauerland A historical region in what is now central Slovakia, formerly inhabited by Carpathian Germans. == German == === Etymology === Coined in the 1930s (the region having formerly been referred to by the names of various villages within it), from many placenames in the region having the suffix -hau (“hew, clear woodland”). === Proper noun === Hauerland n (proper noun, strong, genitive Hauerlandes or Hauerlands) Hauerland Synonym: Hauland 1991, Duncan B. Gardiner, German Towns in Slovakia & Upper Hungary: A Genealogical Gazetteer, citation of another work: