Encs is a very small town in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county, Northern Hungary, 30 kilometers from the county capital Miskolc. The area has been inhabited for at least 6,000 years. After the Hungarians occupied the area, it became part of Újvár comitatus (later Abaúj county). The first recorded mention of the village was in 1219. The railway line reached the village in 1860. In 1880 Encs had about 1,000 residents. After the treaty of Trianon Encs was the most important village of the parts of Abaúj-Torna county that remained in Hungary. The next few decades brought prosperity. In 1962 it became the centre of the unified districts of Encs, Abaújszántó and Szikszó, and gained town status in 1984. At the same time, the municipalities of Abaújdevecser, Fügöd and Gibárt joined Encs, but this last one became independent again in 2006.

Encs is a small town situated in BAZ county, 30km from Miskolc. Similarly to Moldava nad Bodvou on the Slovak side, Encs is also an important town within the Cserehát micro-region, with the urban functions. Encs has also many experience in the field of different types of EU funded and national projects and programmes. The are the following: KEOP, ÉMOP, HU-SK Cross Border Cooperatiom Programme 2007-2013, ETC. The regions of Moldava nad Bodvou and Encs are historically and geographically connected. Both regions are economicly and socially underdeveloped and were divided by the state border Encs (slov. Enča alebo Enč) je mesto v Maďarsku v Boršodsko-abovsko-zemplínskej župe v Encsskom okrese.