Komorn county

Komorn County ; (Komárom) ; (1910)
Administrative headquarters :	Komárom
Area :	2,834 km²
Population :	201,850
Ethnic groups :	88% Hungarians; 6% Germans; 4% Slovaks; 2% others

The Komárom County (German also Komorner County ; Hungarian vármegye Komárom , Latin comitatus Comaromiensis , Slovak Komárňanská župa / stolica or county Komárňanský ) was a historic administrative unit ( County / County ) in the Kingdom of Hungary and then briefly in Czechoslovakia and Hungary .

location

Map of Komárom county around 1890

The county bordered on the north with the county Neutra ( Nyitra ), in the north-east with the county Bars , in the east with the county Gran ( Esztergom ), in the south-east on a short distance with the county Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun , in the south the Fejér County (Fejér) , on the southwest by the County Veszprém ( Veszprém ), on the west by the County Raab ( Győr ) and on the northwest by the County Pressburg ( Pozsony ).

On both sides of the Danube, about half of it was in what is now southern Slovakia and what is now north-western Hungary .

The Danube, Waag and Nitra rivers flowed through the area, and in 1910 it had 201,850 inhabitants on an area of 2843 km².

Administrative offices

The original seat of the administration was the Komorn Fortress , later the city of Komorn ( Komárno in Slovak , Komárom in Hungarian ).

history

The county was established in the 11th century as one of the first in the Kingdom of Hungary . It had its territory within a radius of 20 kilometers from the city of Komorn.

In the 16th and 17th centuries it was the target of frequent Turkish attacks, but thanks to the good fortification of the city of Komorn it was never permanently conquered. 1785-1790 it was temporarily with the Esztergom County to Komárom-Esztergom combined and 1849-1859 temporarily the Danube and extended to parts of the county Raab north to the areas of the county Gran.

In 1918 the part north of the Danube ( confirmed under international law by the Treaty of Trianon in 1920) became the Comorner County (Komárňanská župa) to the newly formed Czechoslovakia . However, the area was significantly expanded in terms of area. In 1922 it was then divided between the Neutra County (Slovak Nitrianska župa ) and the Bratislava County (Slovak Bratislavská župa ). The southern part of the former county remained with Hungary and formed the Komárom-Esztergom county with the southern part of Gran County ( Esztergom in Hungarian ) .

As a result of the First Vienna Arbitration Award in 1938, the southern part of Slovakia, which bordered on Hungary , was occupied by the latter. As a result, Komárom County was re-established in Hungary , but a large part of the Schüttinsel was added to the original area .

After the end of World War II , the borders of 1938 were restored, so the area of the former county was divided between Czechoslovakia and Hungary. The part on the territory of Hungary was not renamed, but was still called Komárom . It was not until 1992 that the county was renamed Komárom-Esztergom. The former part of the county north of the Danube has belonged to the independent Slovakia since 1993 and has been part of the Neutra Landscape Association ( Nitriansky kraj ) since 1996 . Today's Komárno district is largely identical to the northern part of the former county.

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

1918–1922: Komárňanská župa (Komorn County), CS

1923–1928: Nitrianska župa (Neutra County) + Bratislavská župa (Bratislava County), CS

1928–1938: "Slovenská krajina / zem" (Slovak Land), CS

1938–1945: part of Hungary

1945–1948: Slovenská krajina (Slovak Country), CS

1949–1960: Nitriansky kraj (Regional Association of Neutra) + Bratislavský kraj (Regional Association of Pressburg) - not to be confused with today's, CS

1960–1990: Západoslovenský kraj (Western Slovakia / Regional Association of Western Slovakia), CS and SK

since 1996: Nitriansky kraj (Landschaftsverband Neutra), SK

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
Csallóköz (" Big Schüttinsel ")	Nemesócsa, today Zemianska Olča
Udvard, today Dvory nad Žitavou	Ógyalla, today Hurbanovo
Gesztes, today Várgesztes	Nagyigmánd
Tata	Tata
City district (rendezett tanácsú város)
Komárom, today Komárno

Komorn (partially), Zemianska Olča , Dvory nad Žitavou and Hurbanovo are in today's Slovakia , the other districts in Hungary .

Web links

swell

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

[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)