Gömör és Kis-Hont County

County Gemer and small Hont (Hungarian Gömör és Kis- Hont Vármegye, Slovak Gemersko - malohontská župa ) is the name of a historic administrative unit ( county / county) in the Kingdom of Hungary, and after 1918 briefly in Czechoslovakia during the Second World War in Hungary.

The county was created in 1802 by the merger of the county Gemer (Hungarian Gömör ) with the small Hont county (Hungarian Kishont, Slovak Malohont ) for county Gemer and small Hont (Hungarian Gömör és Kishont ) combined.

The area lies almost entirely in today's southern Slovakia, a small portion is located in northern Hungary, the Slovak Gemer name is now used as an unofficial name given to this area and as the official designation of a tourist region.

Location

County Gemer and small Hont bordered to the north by the county Liptau ( Liptov / Liptó ), in the north- east by the county Zips ( Spis / Szepes ), to the east by the county Abaúj- Torna ( abov - Turňa ), in the southwest on the Borsod, in the south on a short section of the Heves County, in the southwest of the county Neograd ( Novohrad / Nógrád ) and on the northwest by the county Sohl ( Zvolen / Zólyom ).

It was therefore in the Slovak Ore approximately between today's Slovak-Hungarian border, the towns and Poltár Rožňava and the Low Tatras (Slovak Low Tatras ). The area was drained by the river Slaná (Hungarian Sajó ) and 1910 there were in the county 188 098 inhabitants in an area of 4278 km ².

Management seats

Originally it was the administrative seat of the county Gemer the castle Gemer the place Gemer (formerly German also Gömmersburg, Gemersburg ), north of Tornaľa and from the beginning of the 18th century the place Plešivec. During the first association of small Hont with Gemer to Gemer and small Hont in the years 1786-1790 Rimavská Sobota was the administrative seat, then again Plešivec and since 1850 then definitely Rimavská Sobota.

History

County Gemer emerged in the early 12th century at the latest. Previously it was part of the county Tornau.

Between 1552 and 1687 almost the entire area opposite the neighboring Ottoman Empire in the south ( in present-day Hungary) was under tribute, and was exposed to Turkish looting.

In the years 1786-1790 and 1802-1918, the county was combined with the relatively small area between Tisovec and Rimavská Sobota, the small Hont was called. The combined county was then called according Gemer and small Hont.

In 1918 the largest part of the county ( under international law confirmed by the Treaty of Trianon 1920), the newly created Czechoslovakia, a small part of the place Putnok remained with Hungary in the newly created Borsod- Gömör- Kishont (Today's successor is Borsod -Abaúj -Zemplén ).

The southern half of the Czechoslovak part was as a result of the First Vienna Award in 1938 occupied by Hungary, where the county Gömör és Kishont was established again. In the 1939-1945 independent Slovakia, the remaining part was part of the 1940-1945 County Hron.

The borders were restored after the end of the Second World War in 1945 as Czechoslovakia.

After the recent split of Czechoslovakia in 1993, it became part of independent Slovakia and is now in the Banská Bystrica Region Association ( Banskobystrický kraj ) and in Košice ( Košice kraj ). A small part of the place Vernár lying around in the Prešov Region ( Prešov kraj ).

The area of the county was administratively incorporated chronologically as follows:

County subdivision

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