Bereg County
The Bereg county ( county also German Mountain / Berger County; Hungarian Vármegye Bereg, Latin comitatus Beregiensis ) was an administrative unit ( county, county ) in the Kingdom of Hungary. Today, the smaller part is located in Hungary (today in Szabolcs- Szatmár- Bereg ), the greater part of the Ukraine ( Transcarpathian Oblast ).
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Location
The county bordered on the north by the Austrian crown land of Galicia (or before 1772 in Poland), to the east by the county Máramaros, on the southeast by the small county Ugocsa, to the south by the county of Satu Mare ( Szatmár ), on the southwest by the Szabolcs and to the northwest by the county Ung.
It lay between the mountain range of the Carpathian Mountains in the north and the river Tisza in the South, in 1910 it had 208 589 inhabitants in an area of 3783 km ².
Until 1621 the county was designated as Bereg county Borsova. From the flat part of the county from which lay to the south, the relief in the north - north-east became more mountainous. The highest mountain was the Stoj (Hungarian Sztoj, 1681 m), an important pass was the Verecke Pass. Through the area of the county flowed the rivers Tisza, Serne, Latorica, Irshava etc.
The census in 1910 yielded a total population of 208 589 people. Among them were 93 198 ( 44.7 %), Hungary, 18,639 (8.9%) German and 95 308 ( 45.7%) Russian women (often mistakenly referred to as " Ruthenians "). The Hungarians lived primarily in the lowlands near the river Tisza, the Rusyns mostly in the mountains, less in the lowlands, and the Germans mainly distributed everywhere in the cities or in smaller groups in the county. 103 206 people identified themselves as Uniates, 56 289 as Calvinists, 19,128 Catholics (Roman ) and 29 052 as Israelites.
County subdivision
In the early 20th century following administrative division existed:
All places lie in today's Ukraine.