Hont County

Hont county ( German also Hont County; Hungarian Hont ( h) Vármegye, Slovak Hontianska župa, Latin comitatus Honthensis ) is the name of a historic administrative unit ( county / county) in the Kingdom of Hungary in 1918 and briefly on the territory of Czechoslovakia.

The area is 3/4 in today's southern Slovakia and 1/4 in northern Hungary. The name Hont is now used as the unofficial name given to this area.

Location

Hont County bordered on the north by the county Sohl ( Zólyom ), to the east and southeast of the county Neograd ( Nógrád ), in the eastern south along the Danube on the Pest - Pilis - Solt -Kiskun, on the southwest by the county Gran ( Esztergom ) and to the west and northwest of the county bars.

So it was roughly between the Štiavnica ( German Schemnitz ) and the Danube, the area around the city Krupina ( German carp) but was attached only at the end of the 19th century. The area was traversed by the rivers Krupinica and Eipel (Slovak Ipeľ, Hungarian Ipoly ) and in 1910 had 132 441 inhabitants in an area of 2633 km ².

Management seats

Originally, the administrative center of the county was the castle Hont ( in present-day Hungary, on the border with Slovakia southeast of Šahy located ) together with the location Ipeľské Predmostie, from the 16th century during the Turkish occupation, there was no real capital, and from the early 19. century Šahy ( Eipelschlag German, Hungarian Ipolyság ) for administrative seat.

History

The county was created in the 11th century (first source document in 1156 ) by splitting off from the county Neograd. Around the year 1300 came the ( non-contiguous ) area of small Hont (Hungarian Kishont ) is added, but this retained a special status and was built in 1802 ( even temporarily 1786-1790 ) of county Gemer and small Hont.

From 1552 to 1685 the majority of the county was either directly part of the Ottoman Empire ( and there belonged to a management unit, which was named Sanjak Neograd / NOGRAD ) or at least was this kingdom tributary opposite.

At the time of elimination of small Hont it came in 1802 also to small boundary changes on the northern border, and in the late 19th century the area came to the county Krupina added.

In 1918 the largest part of the county ( in international law by the Treaty of Trianon, 1920 ) for the newly created Czechoslovakia, a small part of the area southeast of the Eipel remained in Hungary.

The Czechoslovak part was continued until 1922 as Hontianska župa. Because of the First Vienna Award in 1938, the southern part of Hungary was occupied, and the northern part fell from 1940 to 1945 to the newly formed county Graner (Slovak Hronská župa ) within the 1939-1945 independent Slovakia. 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 located since 1996 in Nitra (Slovak Nitriansky ) and in the Banská Bystrica Region Association (Slovak Banskobystrický kraj ).

The area of the county was administratively incorporated into Czechoslovakia in chronological order as follows:

The Hungarian part of Hont was united after the end of the Kingdom in 1918 with the county Neograd the new Nógrád - Hont. 1938 to 1945 it was combined with parts of the former counties now occupied bars and Hont Hont - bars to the county, whose capital was Levice. Since 1950, the Hungarian territory of Hont is divided among the still existing counties Pest and Nógrád.

County subdivision

Until 1802, the county consisted of three districts chair (Hungarian járások, Slovak slúžnovské okresy, Latin processus ) and to the district of Klein Hont. After 1802 Small Hont was cleaved, told you the new county into four districts on chair.

The county was in the early 20th century from the following districts chair (after the name of the administrative headquarters named):

The cities Vámosmikola and Szob are in present-day Hungary.