Liptó County

County Liptau ( Vármegye Hungarian Liptó; Slovak Liptovská župa, Latin comitatus Liptoviensis ) is a historic administrative unit ( county / county) in the Kingdom of Hungary.

The same landscape is located in central Slovakia. Your name Slovakian Liptov is now used as an unofficial name for the area and as the official designation of a tourist region.

Location

County Liptau bordered on the northeast by Poland ( 1772 to 1918 or to the Austrian crown land of Galicia), to the east by the former county Zips ( Szepes ), to the southeast by the county Gemer and small Hont ( Gömör és Kis- Hont ), in the southwest to the county Sohl ( Zólyom ), on the west by the county Turz ( Turóc ) and on the northwest by the county Arwa ( Árva ).

The area is located in the West Tatra Mountains, south of it, and is largely with the area's top Waag ( to the confluence of the Waag with the Orava ), that is with the Liptauer pool (Slovak Liptovská kotlina ), identical.

The watershed between the Waag ( by Liptau flows ) and the Hernad (Slovak Hornád ) forms the border between the provinces Liptau and Zips. In the south, it terminates at the peaks of the Low Tatras, and in the west the Liptau ends where the Mala Fatra meet each other (Slovak Malá Fatra ) and the Great Fatra ( Velka Fatra ).

The county had Liptau 1910 86.906 inhabitants in an area of 2246 km ².

Management seats

The Verwaltungsssitze of the county were the castle Liptau ( at Liptovská Sielnica ) and after its destruction in the 15th century, the places Liptovská Mara and Partizánska Ľupča, since 1677, it was then Liptovsky Mikulas.

History

The region has emerged as one of the historical counties of the Kingdom of Hungary in the mid-13th century by cleavage from the county Sohl.

1918, the region became part of the newly formed Czechoslovakia, which was confirmed in international law by the Treaty of Trianon in 1920.

1939, shortly before the outbreak of World War II, after Czechoslovakia was dissolved, the Liptau became part of the independent Slovakia. After the war Czechoslovakia was re-established and disbanded in 1993.

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

County subdivision

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

Politically, the area is now part of Regional Association of Zilina ( Žilinský ). Larger cities are Ružomberok (Rosenberg ), Liptovsky Mikulas ( Liptau- Saint Nicholas ) and Liptovsky Hradok.

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