Abaúj-Torna County

County Abaúj- Torna ( German Abaujwar - Tornau Hungarian Abaúj- Torna Vármegye, Slovak Abovsko - turnianska župa, Latin comitatus Abaujvariensis et Tornensis ) was a historic administrative unit ( county / county) in the Kingdom of Hungary, and after the First World War in Hungary and briefly under the name Abovsko - turnianska župa in Czechoslovakia.

The area lies in today's eastern Slovakia and north-eastern Hungary.

Location

The county bordered on the north by the county Sáros, east and south by the county Semplin ( Zemplén ), in the southwest on the Borsod County, 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 ​​Komitatsteiles Abaujwar extended approximately 20 km along both sides of the river Hernad / Kundert (Slovak Hornád, Hungarian Hernád ) between Košice and Miskolc; not belonging to ).

The other Komitatsteil Tornau lay southwest of Kosice. The county was traversed by the rivers Hernad and Bodwa and had 1907 205.656 inhabitants in an area of 3323 km ².

Administrative headquarters

The city of Košice since the formation of the county seat of administration in 1882 and thus capital.

History

The county was created from the union of the two counties Abaujwar and Tornau. This union consisted of for the first time from 1785-1790, then again briefly from 1848-1859 and finally from 1882 until the end of the Kingdom of Hungary.

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

By the First Vienna Award in 1938, the majority of the Czechoslovak part was occupied by Hungary and the county Abaúj- Torna with capital cash connected. The rest of the Czechoslovak part came from 1940 to 1945 to the newly formed Šarišsko - Zemplínska župa within the 1939-1945 independent Slovakia.

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

The area of the county was administratively incorporated into Czechoslovakia in chronological order as follows:

The Hungarian part formed after the Second World War along with the Borsod and the Hungarian part of the county Semplin the still existing Borsod- Abaúj -Zemplén.

County subdivision

In the early 20th century following chair districts passed ( usually after the name of the administrative headquarters named):

The cities Füzér, Szikszó, Gönc and Abaújszántó are in present-day Hungary.