Trenčín county

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County Trenčín
(Trencsén)
(1910)
Coat of arms of Trenčín (Trencsén)
Administrative headquarters : Trencsén
Area : 4,456 km²
Population : 310,437
Ethnic groups : 92% Slovaks
4% Magyars
3% Germans
1% other (mainly Poles )
Trenčín county

The County Trenčín (German also Trenčín County ; Hungarian Trencsén vármegye , Slovak Trenčianska stolica / župa or Trenčiansky County , Latin comitatus Trentsiniensis / Trenchiniensis ) is the name of a historic administrative unit (County / County) of the Kingdom of Hungary . The area is in what is now western Slovakia .

geography

Map of Trenčín County around 1890

Trenschin county bordered in the north on the Austrian crown land of Austrian Silesia (or before 1867 temporarily also Moravia and the Principality of Teschen ), in the north-east on the crown land of Galicia (or before 1772 on Poland ), in the north-east on the Arwa county ( Árva ), in the east Turz ( Turóc ) county , in the southeast and south the Neutra ( Nyitra ) county and in the west to the Austrian crown land of Moravia .

The county thus extended over an area in the far northwest of today's Slovakia between the border with today's Czech Republic , the city of Nové Mesto nad Váhom , the counties of Turz and Arwa and the Polish border. The Waag flowed through the area and in 1910 had 310,437 inhabitants on an area of ​​4456 km².

Administrative offices

The administrative seat of the county was originally Trenčín Castle , and from around 1650 the town of Trenčín .

history

A kind of predecessor of Trenčín County already existed in the 9th century during the rule of Great Moravia over this area. In the 10th and 11th centuries it probably belonged temporarily to Bohemia and Poland (castellania Trecen) .

The administrative unit emerged as a county of the Kingdom of Hungary towards the end of the 11th century after a large part of the area had been conquered by the Kingdom of Hungary.

After the area became part of the newly formed Czechoslovakia in 1918, confirmed by the Treaty of Trianon in 1920, it continued to exist until 1922, but the competencies of this administrative area were completely different from the previous ones.

After the establishment of an independent Slovakia in 1939, the administrative unit Trenčianska župa was created again in 1940, expanded a little and existed until 1945. After the end of World War II in 1945, Czechoslovakia was re-established. After the peaceful separation into the states of Slovakia and the Czech Republic in 1993 , the area finally became part of independent Slovakia.

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

  • 1918–1922: Trenčianska župa (Trenčín County), CS
  • 1922–1928: Bratislavská župa (Bratislava County) + Považská župa (Waager County) + Nitrianska župa (Neutra County), CS
  • 1928–1939: Slovenská krajina / zem (Slovak Land), CS
  • 1940–1945: Trenčianska župa (Trenčín County), SK
  • 1945–1948: Slovenská krajina (Slovak Country), CS
  • 1949–1960: Bratislavký kraj (Bratislava Regional Association) + Nitriansky kraj (Neutra Regional Association) + Žilinský kraj (Silleine Regional Association) - all three should not be confused with today's landscape associations, CS
  • 1960–1990: Západoslovenský kraj (West Slovak Regional Association) + Stredoslovenský kraj (Central Slovak Regional Association), CS
  • since 1996: about Trenčiansky kraj ( Trenčian Regional Association) + Žilinský kraj (Sillein Regional Association), SK

District subdivision

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

Chair districts (járások)
Chair district Administrative headquarters
Trencsén Trencsén, today Trenčín
Bán Bán, today Bánovce nad Bebravou
Csaca Csaca, today Čadca
Illava Illava, today Ilava
Kiszucaújhely Kiszucaújhely, today Kysucké Nové Mesto
Nagybiccse Nagybiccse, today Bytča
Puhó Puhó, today Púchov
Vágbeszterce Vágbeszterce, today Považská Bystrica
Zsolna Zsolna, today Žilina
City district (rendezett tanácsú város)
Trencsén, today Trenčín

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)