Szabolcs County

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Szabolcs
County
(1910)
Coat of arms of Szabolcs (Saboltsch)
Administrative headquarters : Nyíregyháza
Area : 4,637 km²
Population : 319,818
Ethnic groups : 99% Magyars
1% others ( Slovaks , Germans )
Szabolcs County

The Szabolcs (German rarely County Saboltsch ; Hungarian vármegye Szabolcs , Latin comitatus Szabolcsensis ) was a historic administrative unit ( county / county) in the Kingdom of Hungary .

location

Map of Szabolcs County around 1890

Most of it lay south of the Tisza around its capital Nyíregyháza and thus almost entirely in the territory of today's Hungary , only a tiny part north of the Tisza near the towns of Malé Trakany and Veľké Trakany was in the territory of today's Slovakia .

The county bordered Semplin ( Zemplén ) county to the north and north-west , Ung county for a short distance to the north-east , Bereg county to the east and Sathmar ( Szatmár ) county to the south, and the south-east for a short distance Bihar County, Hajdú County to the south and Borsod County to the west .

In 1910 Szabolcs County had 319,818 inhabitants on an area of ​​4,637 km².

Administrative headquarters

The county seat was Nyíregyháza .

history

The county is one of the oldest counties in the Kingdom of Hungary . It is named after one of the seven military leaders of the time of the conquest.

In 1918 it was combined with part of the former Ung county to form Szabolcs-Ung county with the capital Nyíregyháza; a tiny part of the area north of the Tisza near Malé Trakany and Veľké Trakany came to the newly formed Czechoslovakia as part of border corrections ( confirmed under international law by the Treaty of Trianon in 1920).

After the Second World War , the county was combined with the Hungarian parts of Sathmar and Bereg counties to form Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county ; some parts came near the places Polgár and northeast of Debrecen to the newly created Hajdú-Bihar 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
Dada alsó ("sub-Dada") Tiszalok
Dada Felső ("Upper Dada") Gáva
Kisvárda Kisvárda
League valleyja Nyíracsád
Nagykálló Nagykálló
Nyírbakta Nyírbakta
Nyírbátor Nyírbátor
Nyírbogdány Kemecse
Tisza Mándok
City district (rendezett tanácsú város)
Nyíregyháza

See also

literature

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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)