Borsod County

The Borsod ( German rarely county Borsod; Hungarian Borsod Vármegye, Latin comitatus Borsodiensis ) was a historic administrative unit ( county / county) in the Kingdom of Hungary.

Geography and General

Located right of the Tisza county is traversed in the northern part of Bükkgebergte, while the southern part is very shallow and flat. In addition to limiting them rivers Tisza, Eger and Hernád it is still irrigated by Sajó and Bodva. The most Hungarian inhabitants were heavily involved in the wine, especially wine from the area around Miskolc was very popular in Hungary, in addition, there were also large-scale cultivation of wheat, fruit, hemp and tobacco. Almost half of the area was covered with forest and there was a large wild population. Also, the mining was greatly developed, there were mainly copper, iron and coal promoted.

The county bordered on the counties Gemer and small Hont, Abaúj- Torna, Semplin, Szabolcs, Hajdú and Heves.

History

The county is one of the oldest and Hungary began in the 11th century. It was named after the seat of the tribal leader, who supervised this area. Whose name Bors gave the castle of Borsod the name, this was in the same town that was incorporated into the town Edelény beginning of the 20th century. The name of the castle went over like many Hungarian counties on the name of the county, and later the castle was the seat of the prefect of Diósgyor, following a decision in 1724 but moved to the county seat in the town of Miskolc.

The boundaries of the county remained since the early 14th century, when the county Torna was separated from the area, relatively stable, but the area was occupied after the Battle of Mohács in the 16th century by the Turks, they left the Komitatsgebiet in 1687 again. In the 19th century it came to smaller limit corrections, 1807-1812 ( suburbs of Eger today mostly ) came the villages Szőlőske, Cegléd Tihamer, Almagyar, Felnémet and Bekölce to Nachbarkomitat Heves and in compensation for the places Egerfarmos, Ivánka, Szőkepuszta and the mill of Kistálya for Borsod county. 1850 some places were again slammed the surrounding counties, the municipalities Andornak, Kistálya and Felsőtárkány were a part of the Heveser county, the municipalities Domaháza and Sikátor a part of Gemer and small Hont county, Onga ( from county Abaujwar ) and Külsőböcs ( from Sempliner county) However, were a part of the county Borsod. 1907 Miskolc was elevated to the rank of a city with a municipium and was thus no longer a de jure to the administrative area of the county.

1918 came it to the now reduced Hungary in 1924 combined with the remnants of the counties Gemer and small Hont ( Gömör és Kis- Hont ) and Abaúj- Torna to Borsod- Gömör- Kishont, this association but was canceled after the First Vienna Award, after the war ended in 1945 but restored as Borsod- Gömör. After the great Komitatsreform on 16 March 1950, the remains of the counties Semplin and abauj - Torna were combined with the county under the name of Borsod- Abaúj -Zemplén.

County subdivision

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