Komárom County

The county Komárom ( German also Komorner County; Vármegye Hungarian Komárom, Latin comitatus Comaromiensis, Slovak Komárňanská župa / stolica or Komárňanský county) was a historic administrative unit ( county / county) in the Kingdom of Hungary and then briefly in Czechoslovakia and Hungary.

Location

The county bordered on the north by at the county Neutra ( Nyitra ), in the north- east by the county bars, on the east by the county of Gran ( Esztergom ), in south-east for a short distance to the Pest - Pilis - Solt -Kiskun, in the south the county White castle ( Fejér ), on the southwest by the county Veszprém ( Veszprém ), on the west by the county Raab (Győr ) and on the northwest by the county Pressburg ( Pozsony ).

So it was on both sides of the Danube about half in today's southern Slovakia and in present-day north-western Hungary.

The rivers Danube and Vah Nitra flows through the area, and in 1910 it had 201 850 inhabitants in an area of 2843 km ².

Management seats

The original seat of the administration was the fortress of Komárom, and later the city of Komárom (Slovak Komárno, Hungarian Komárom ).

History

The county was established in the 11th century as one of the first in the Kingdom of Hungary. It had its territory around within a radius of 20 kilometers around the city Komárom.

In the 16th and 17th century what he did. Frequently the target Turkish attacks, thanks to the good attachment of the City Komárom but it was never permanently conquered 1785-1790 it was temporarily united with the county to Gran Komárom-Esztergom county and 1849-1859 temporarily expanded to include the areas of the county Gran north of the Danube, as well as to parts of the county Raab.

In 1918 the part north of the Danube ( by the Treaty of Trianon in 1920 under international law confirmed ) as Komorner County ( Komárňanská župa ) for the newly created Czechoslovakia. The area was, however, in terms of area significantly expanded. 1922 was then divided between the Nitra county (Slovak Nitrianska župa ) and the Bratislava County (Slovak Bratislavská župa ). The southern part of the former county remained with Hungary and formed the southern part of the county Gran (Hungarian Esztergom ) the Komárom-Esztergom county.

As a result of the First Vienna Award of 1938, the southern part of Slovakia bordering on Hungary, occupied by this. Then the Komárom was re-established in Hungary, the original area was still a large part of the island to bulk.

After the end of the Second World War, the borders of 1938 were restored, the area of ​​the former county was thus divided between Czechoslovakia and Hungary. The part on the territory of Hungary was not changed back again, but was still Komárom. Only in 1992 the county in Komárom-Esztergom has been renamed. The former Komitatsteil north of the Danube belongs since 1993 to an independent Slovakia and is since 1996 part of the Regional Association of Neutra ( Nitriansky kraj ). Today's Department / County Komárno is largely identical to the northern part of the former county.

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):

Komárom ( partial), Zemianska Olca, Dvory nad Žitavou and Hurbanovo are in today's Slovakia, the other districts in Hungary.