In one of our more important historical documents, Petrasovszky Manóff in 1957 said
So, how can I move deeper into this assertion? Well, it is a bit of fun to search for towns with the Mankovich name. One that comes up quickly is Mankovice, Czech Republic. However, this is outside of Slovakia (10 miles N of the border). Selecting this town is tempting but an overlap of the historical counties of the Hungarian Empire (gray borders and text) show otherwise (note Bars county between arrows and the current Mankovice pointed to by “A” above). In that map above the current national boundaries are in white.
Well, let’s try some variants of Mankovich – stumbling upon Mankovce, Slovakia as shown by the red map marker below. A village of 540 persons today. Also, it is clearly within the historical bounds of Bars County and, similar to our more traditional Rusyn towns, is located up against one of the subcarpathian hills. Later I will go into some of the good historical correlation work that Geza F has done to match our earliest ancestor. For now, suffice it to say that this land grant was likely around 1270.