Heves county (historical)

Heves County (Hewesch) (1910)
Administrative headquarters :	Eger
Area :	3,761 km²
Population :	279,700
Ethnic groups :	99% Hungarians 1% others ( Germans , Slovaks )

The Heves county (German rarely also Hewesch county ; Hungarian Heves vármegye , Latin comitatus Hevesiensis ) was a historical administrative unit (county / county) in the Kingdom of Hungary .

The area lies in what is now northern Hungary on the area of ​​what is now Heves County , but it was somewhat larger than this.

location

Map of Heves County around 1890

The county bordered the Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun , Neograd (Nógrád) , Gemer and Kleinhont (Gömör és Kis-Hont) counties , Borsod , Hajdú and Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok counties . It lay between the Mátra Mountains and the Bükk Mountains in the northwest and the River Tisza in the southeast.

history

The county was established in the 13th century and existed in this form until the major county reform in 1950. It was occupied by the Turks from 1596 to 1687. In 1950, as part of the major county reform, the area around Pásztó was assigned to Nógrád county , and the left bank of the Tisza (around Tiszafüred ) was also assigned to Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok county . In return, areas near Eger from Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County were added. See further under Heves County .

District subdivision

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

Chair districts (járások)
Chair district	Administrative headquarters
Eger	Eger
Gyöngyös	Gyöngyös
Hatvan	Hatvan
Heves	Heves
Pétervására	Pétervására
Tiszafured	Tiszafured
City districts (rendezett tanácsú városok)
Eger
Gyöngyös

All the places mentioned are in present-day Hungary .

See also

• List of historical counties of Hungary

literature

• Heves . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 8, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, pp. 500–501.

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)