Abaúj-Torna county

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Abauj-Torna county
(Abaujwar-Tornau)
(1910)
Abauj-Torna coat of arms (Abaujwar-Tornau)
Administrative headquarters : Cash desk
Area : 3,317 km²
Population : 202.288
Ethnic groups : 77% Hungarians
18% Slovaks
3% Germans
Abaúj-Torna county

The Abaúj-Torna county (German Abaujwar-Tornau, Hungarian Abaúj-Torna vármegye , Slovak Abovsko-turnianska župa , Latin comitatus Abaujvariensis et Tornensis ) was an administrative unit ( county or county ) in the Kingdom of Hungary , and after the First World War in Hungary and for a short time in Hungary under the name Abovsko-turnianska župa in Czechoslovakia .

The area is in what is now eastern Slovakia and north-eastern Hungary .

location

Map of Abaúj-Torna County around 1890

The county bordered on the north by the Sáros County , in the east and south by the Zemplén County ( Zemplén ), on the southwest by the Borsod , on the west by the County Gemer and small Hont ( Gömör és Kis-Hont ) and on the northwest by the County Zips ( Szepes ).

The area of ​​the Abaujwar county stretched for about 20 kilometers on both sides of the Hernad / Kundert River ( Hornád in Slovak , Hernád in Hungarian ) between Košice and Miskolc (no longer belonging).

The other part of the county Tornau was southwest of Košice . The rivers Hernad and Bodwa flowed through the county and in 1907 counted 205,656 inhabitants on an area of ​​3323 km².

Administrative headquarters

The city of Košice has been the seat of administration and thus the capital since the county was established in 1882.

history

The county emerged from the union of the two counties Abaujwar and Tornau . This association existed for the first time from 1785 to 1790, then again from 1848 to 1859 and finally from 1882 until the end of the Kingdom of Hungary .

In 1918 the northern part of the area (with Košice ) became part of the newly formed Czechoslovakia ( confirmed under international law by the Treaty of Trianon 1920) and existed here under the name Abovskoturnianska župa until 1922. The southern half, however, remained as Abaúj-Torna county with the capital Szikszó near Hungary .

With the First Vienna Arbitration Award in 1938, the majority of the Czechoslovak part was occupied by Hungary and attached to Abaúj-Torna County. Capital became Kassa. The rest of the Czechoslovak part came from 1940 to 1945 to the newly founded Šarišsko-zemplínska župa within Slovakia , which existed from 1939 to 1945 .

The borders were restored after the end of the Second World War in 1945, as was Czechoslovakia . After the recent split of Czechoslovakia in 1993, the former Czechoslovak territory with Slovakia came and located since 1996 in Košice Region ( Košický kraj ).

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

  • 1918–1922: Abovsko-turnianska župa (Abaujwar-Tornau County), CS
  • 1923–1928: Košická župa (Kosice County), CS
  • 1928–1939: Slovenská krajina / zem (Slovak Land), CS
  • 1940–1945: Šarišsko-zemplínska župa (Sharosch-Semplin County), SK
  • 1945–1948: Slovenská krajina (Slovak Country), CS
  • 1949–1960: Košický kraj (Kaschauer Landschaftsverband) - not to be confused with today's, CS
  • 1960–1990: Východoslovenský kraj (East Slovak Regional Association), CS
  • since 1996: Košický kraj (Kaschauer Landschaftsverband), SK

After the Second World War, the Hungarian part, together with Borsod County and the Hungarian part of Semplin County, formed Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County, which is still in existence today .

District subdivision

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

Gönc Monastery
Chair districts (járások)
Chair district Administrative headquarters
Cash desk Cash desk, today Košice
Füzér Hernádzsadány, today Ždaňa
Cserehát (mountain range) Szepsi, today Moldava nad Bodvou
Torna Torna, today Turňa nad Bodvou
Szikszó Szikszó
Gönc Abaújszántó
City district (rendezett tanácsú város)
Cash desk, today Košice

The cities of Füzér , Szikszó , Gönc and Abaújszántó are located in today's Hungary.

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)