Esztergom County
County Gran (also Graner County; Hungarian Esztergom Vármegye, Latin comitatus Strigoniensis, Slovak Ostrihomská župa / stolica or Ostrihomský county) was a historic administrative unit ( county / county) in the Kingdom of Hungary.
Location
It lay on both sides of the Danube to about 2/3 in today's southern Slovakia and 1/3 in what is now northern Hungary.
The county bordered on the north by the county bars, in the north- east by the county of Hont, on the southeast by the Pest - Pilis - Solt -Kiskun and to the west by the county Komárom ( Komárom ).
The county included an approximately 15 km wide area west of the lower reaches of the river Gran (now slovak Hron ) above the Danube and below this one about 10 km wide ( in present-day Hungary so ). 1910 had 87 651 inhabitants who lived on an area of 1076.35 km ².
Management seats
Originally the headquarters at the castle Gran and in the associated city Gran (now Hungarian Esztergom ), from 1543 ( after the Ottoman Empire had occupied the area ) was the seat outside of the county (for example, from 1605 to 1663 in Neuhäusel, today Slovak Nové zámky ), after the reconquest of territory by the Habsburgs in 1714, the seat was back in Esztergom.
History
A kind of predecessor of this county existed in the 9th century, when in / near Esztergom (then it was called Esztergom ) was one of the main strongholds of the Great Moravian Empire.
County Gran then arose as such the end of the 10th century as one of the first of the Kingdom of Hungary. Because Esztergom was the Archbishop of Hungary seat at the same time, it was 1270, a special status.
In the 13th century a considerable part in the north of the county forever be a part of the county bars.
1543 conquered the Ottoman Empire Esztergom. The southern part of the county was then directly part of this kingdom, while the remaining part was only a tributary, before he was captured 1663-1664, making the county temporarily ceased to exist, and ( theoretically, at least) was administered by the county Komárom. Already in 1686 but the county by the Turkish suzerainty was released, and in 1691 took the Komitatsämter their activities again.
1786-1790 and 1849-1859, the county was combined temporarily with the county Komárom ( see there).
In 1918 a part of the territory north of the Danube to the newly created Czechoslovakia ( by the Treaty of Trianon in 1920 under international law, confirmed ), and the smaller in the south remained in Hungary, and together with the southern part of the former county Komárom the Komárom-Esztergom county.
As a result of the First Vienna Award of the Czechoslovak part came back to Hungary, and the old county of Gran ( Esztergom Hungarian now megye ) was created back in Hungary.
After the Second World War, the borders of 1938 were restored, and the Hungarian parts of the county came back to Komárom. Only in 1992 the county was renamed again in Komárom -Esztergom. The Czechoslovak part north of the Danube since 1993 has been part of the independent Slovakia and belongs since 1996 to the Nitra Region ( Nitriansky kraj ).
The area of the county was administratively incorporated into Czechoslovakia and Slovakia in chronological order as follows:
County subdivision
In the early 20th century following chair districts passed ( usually after the name of the administrative headquarters named):
Štúrovo and Mužla are in today's Slovakia, all other places in present-day Hungary.