Nyitra County
County Neutra ( German also Nitra County; Nyitra Vármegye Hungarian, Slovak Nitrianska stolica / župa or Nitriansky county, Latin comitatus Nitriensis ) is the name of a historic administrative unit ( county / county) of the Kingdom of Hungary. The large area is located in what is now western Slovakia.
Location
County Neutra bordered to the north by the county Trenčín ( Trencsén ), in the north- east by the county Turz ( Turóc ), to the east by the county bars, to the south by the county Komárom ( Komárom ), on the west by the county Pressburg ( Pozsony ) and to the northwest by the Austrian Moravia.
County consisted of an area between the river Morava in the north and the town of Nové Zámky in the south it came up since the 11th century a connected only by a narrow strip with the remaining county area around the town Prievidza around. The area was drained by the Waag and Neutra and had 1910 457.455 inhabitants in an area of 5519 km ².
Management seats
The administrative center of the county was originally the castle Neutra and the Middle Ages the city of Nitra ( Neutra German ).
History
A kind of predecessor of the county Neutra existed in the 9th century during the reign of Great Moravia about this area. After the area was occupied by about 925 Hungarian tribal leader, probably the county was created around 1000 around one of the first in the Kingdom of Hungary.
The area around Prievidza was ( the area around the Waag and the areas west of it ) joined the county in the 11th century, the western part of the county beginning of the 14th century.
In the 16th and 17th centuries ( until 1685) the southern parts of the county were occupied most of the time by the Ottomans and were therefore part of the Ottoman Empire.
1918 the area was part of the newly formed Czechoslovakia, which was confirmed in international law by the Treaty of Trianon in 1920. There was as Nitrianska župa to 1928, but the powers of this management area were completely different to the previous and the boundaries were changed slightly in 1923.
The area of the former county from 1938 to 1945 was south of the city of Nitra busy because of the First Vienna Award of Hungary. This part was combined with the occupied also by Hungary parts of the county to the county Nyitra Pressburg - Pozsony. As the county town Nové Zámky (Hungarian Érsekújvár ) has been set. While the independence of Slovakia in the years 1939-1945 was in 1940 in the Slovak part of the (quasi wiedererschaffene ) administrative unit Nitrianska župa.
After the war, Czechoslovakia was restored and in 1993 the area came to the same resolution for independent Slovakia. Today the area is part of the 1996 created Nitra Region ( Nitriansky kraj ) and the Trenčín Region ( Trenčín Region ) and Trnava Region ( Trnavský 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):