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The Seat of the 10 Lance-bearers, also known as the Upper Seat of the 10 Lance-bearers, the Szepes District of the Lance-bearers, the Upper Seat, and the Minor County, was a seat, an autonomous administrative division, within the Szepes County, Kingdom of Hungary. It existed from the 13th century, before 1243, until 1786 and since 1790 until 1803. Since 1768 its capital was located in Betlanovce. It consisted of several exclaves of villages mostly inhabited by the ten-lanced nobility. Its official languages were Slovak, Hungarian and de facto Latin.