Arwa county

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Arwa County
(Árva)
(1910)
Coat of arms of Arwa (Árva)
Administrative headquarters : Alsókubin
Area : 2,019 km²
Population : 78,745
Ethnic groups : 75% Slovaks
3% Hungarians
2% Germans
20% others (mainly Poles )
Arwa county

The County Arwa (German also Árva County ; Hungarian Árva vármegye , Latin comitatus arvensis , Slovak Oravská župa ) is a historic county or county in the Kingdom of Hungary .

The county is now located in northern central Slovakia , and the Slovak name Orava is now used as an unofficial name for this area and as an official name for a tourist region.

location

Map of Árva county around 1890

County Arwa bordered to the north by Poland (and from 1772 to 1918 to the Austrian crown land of Galicia ), in the central south-west by the County Trenčín (Trencsén) , in the far southwest to the Turóc County (Turóc) and the south by the Liptó County ( Liptó) .

The area extends along the Arwa River between Zázrivá and the Tatra Mountains on the border with Poland , and in 1910 the county had 78,745 inhabitants on an area of ​​2,019 km².

Administrative offices

Aerial view of the Arwaburg

The county seat was originally the Arwaburg , later Veličná and Dolný Kubín (Unterkubin) since the late 17th century .

history

The region as one of the counties of the Kingdom of Hungary emerged in the second half of the 14th century.

In 1918 the region became part of the newly formed Czechoslovakia , which was confirmed under international law by the Treaty of Trianon in 1920. It continued there until 1922. Due to a border dispute with Poland in 1924, some municipalities in the northeast of the region were exchanged (see Czechoslovakian-Polish border conflicts ).

In 1939, shortly before the start of the Second World War , after Czechoslovakia was dissolved, the Arwa became part of the independent Slovakia . After the war, Czechoslovakia was restored and dissolved again in 1993.

The administrative area of ​​the county was incorporated chronologically as follows:

  • 1918–1922: Oravská župa (Arwa County), CS
  • 1923–1928: Považská župa ( Waag County ), CS
  • 1928–1939: Slovenská krajina / zem (Slovak Land), CS
  • 1940–1945: Tatranská župa ( Tatra County ), SK
  • 1945–1948: Slovenská krajina (Slovak Country), CS
  • 1949–1960: Žilinský kraj (Sillein district - not to be confused with today's), CS
  • 1960–1990: Stredoslovenský kraj (Central Slovak District), CS
  • since 1996: Žilinský kraj (Sillein Region), SK

District subdivision

In the early 20th century, the county consisted of the following chair districts (mostly named after the name of the administrative seat):

Chair districts (járások)
Chair district Administrative headquarters
Alsókubin Alsókubin, today Dolný Kubín
Námesztó Námesztó, today Námestovo
Trsztena Trsztena, today Trstená
Vár ("Castle") Turdossin, today Tvrdošín

See also

literature

Web links

  • Entry in the Pallas Lexicon (Hungarian)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A magyar szent corona országainak 1910. évi népszámlálása . Budapest 1912, p. 12 ff.
  2. ↑ A magyar szent corona országainak 1910. évi népszámlálása . Budapest 1912, p. 22 ff. (1910 census)