| Official Name: | Hodoš |
| Other Name: | Hodos (Hungarian) |
| Pushpin Map: | Slovenia |
| Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Slovenia |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Slovenia |
| Subdivision Type1: | Traditional region |
| Subdivision Name1: | Prekmurje |
| Subdivision Type2: | Statistical region |
| Subdivision Name2: | Mura |
| Subdivision Type3: | Municipality |
| Subdivision Name3: | Hodoš |
| Area Total Km2: | 12.5 |
| Population As Of: | 2012 |
| Population Total: | 280 |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
| Population Blank2 Title: | Religions |
| Coordinates: | 46.8285°N 16.3239°W |
| Elevation M: | 258 |
| Footnotes: | [1] |
Hodoš (in Slovenian pronounced as /ˈxóːdɔʃ/; Hungarian: Hodos or Hungarian: Őrihodos, German: Hodosch) is a village in Slovenia. It is the seat of the Municipality of Hodoš. It is part of the Prekmurje region.
Hodoš was first mentioned in written sources in 1331 as de Hudus-feu (and as Hodos in 1452 and 1453). The name is probably based on the hypocorism *Xodošь, from the Slavic personal name *Xodъ. A less likely possibility is that the name is derived from the Hungarian common noun hód 'beaver'.[2]
Hodoš is the site of two known mass graves associated with the Second World War and immediate postwar period. The Cold Valley Mass Grave (Slovenian: Grobišče Mrzla dolina) is located in the woods northwest of Hodoš, southwest of a small lake, in a ravine known as the Cold Valley (Slovenian: Mrzla dolina, Hungarian: Hideg-völgy). It contains the remains of seven or eight ethnic Hungarians (or possibly German soldiers) that were killed when the Red Army arrived in April 1945.[3] The Barracks Mass Grave (Slovenian: Grobišče pri vojašnici) is located north of Hodoš, about 75m (246feet) from the Hungarian border. It contains the remains of a group of Hungarians that illegally crossed the border in 1945. They were shot and their bodies were thrown into an abandoned well.[4]
Notable people that were born or lived in Hodoš include: