Bács-Bodrog County

Bács- Bodrog (pronounced bāhtsch -; German rarely county Batsch - Bodrog; Hungarian Bács- Bodrog Vármegye, Serbian Bačko - Bodroška županija, Latin comitatus Bacsiensis et Bodrogiensis ) was a county in southern Hungary, between the Danube and the Tisza, in the north of the counties plague Pili - Solt -Kiskun and Csongrád limited. It included 1881 11.080 km ² with a population of 638 063 (Hungary, Serbs, German, Slavic and Raizen ).

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Location

The country is lowland, full of swamps and lakes ( of which was exported much) extremely fertile in wheat, wine, tobacco and rich in cattle, game and fish. On wood lacking. Strange are the miles of Roman hills. Capital of the county, which of the Alfold Fiume and Budapest Semliner Railway and the Franzens channel (also Bácser channel) was intersected, was Zombor.

In the north of the county of Pest - Pilis - Solt -Kiskun and Csongrád was, on the east by the county Torontal, in the south of the county of Syrmia ( Szerém ) and in the west for a short distance to the southwest from the county Wirowititz ( Verőce ) and the Baranya county.

History

The counties Bács and Bodrog built in the 11th century, the Bács was in the southern part of the later Bács - Bodrog and the county Bodrog in the northern part. After the occupation by the Ottomans in the area came in the 16th century to the Sanjak of Szeged, after the reconquest of 1699 the state but was restored and it finally came in 1802 to the final unification of the two counties. 1848/49 it was then added to the Voivodeship of Serbia and then affiliated 1849-1860 the Serbian Voivodship and the Temeser Banat.

After the end of World War I in 1918, Serbian forces occupied the area. By the Treaty of Trianon, it was administered by the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes and later divided between Hungary and the UK. While Yugoslavia was awarded the most part in the south, remained about 15% of Komitatsfläche in the north part of Hungary. The remaining part in Hungary with its capital Baja remained within its borders to large Komitatsreform 1950 and formed thereafter made ​​with the former southern parts of the county Pest- Pilis - Solt -Kiskun the new Bács -Kiskun.

County subdivision

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

The towns of Baja and Bácsalmás are in present-day Hungary, the remaining places in present-day Serbia.