Pozsony County

County Pressburg ( German and Pressburger County; Hungarian Pozsony Vármegye, Slovak Prešpurská stolica / župa or Prešpurský county, Latin comitatus Posoniensis ) is the name of a historic administrative unit ( county / county) of the Kingdom of Hungary, as well as the " county Bratislava " / " Bratislava County " ( the Bratislava Slovak župa ) Czechoslovakia and the First Slovak Republic.

The region lies today in western Slovakia, and the city is now called Bratislava Bratislava. The names of the county changed the name of the central city ( see below). In 1900 were the names Pozsonyi Vármegye in Hungarian, Pressburger County / County Pressburg in German and Prešpurská župa in Slovak.

Location

County Pressburg bordered to the west by the Austrian crown land of Lower Austria, in the east and north by the county Neutra ( Nyitra ), to the southeast by the county Komárom ( Komárom ), to the south by the county Raab (Győr ) and on the southwest by the county Wieselburg ( Moson ). It was on the west by the March, bounded on the south by the Danube River and the east by the Waag. 1910, the county 389 750 inhabitants in an area of 4370 km ².

Management seats

Administrative seats of county Pressburg were originally the Bratislava castle and the south-east of Bratislava town located Šamorín, from the 18th century, then the city Bratislava.

History

A kind of predecessor of the county Bratislava already existed in the 9th century during the reign of Great Moravia about this area. After Pressburg was from 907 become a part of the Kingdom of Hungary, was built around the year 1000, the Hungarian county. It was one of the first, which was created in the former Hungarian kingdom, and it lasted about about today's landscape associations of Bratislava and Trnava. By the situation of Bratislava city and its proximity to Vienna, the county had until the late 18th century remains one of the richest and most advanced of the kingdom. In the 18th and 19th centuries, the population consisted mainly ( in and around Bratislava and in the Small Carpathians ) of Germans, Slovaks from (mainly in the north), Hungary (mainly in the south along the Danube ) and Croats ( in the suburbs of Bratislava - especially east and south of the city).

After Pressburg was on January 1, became in 1919 part of Czechoslovakia ( by the Treaty of Trianon in 1920 under international law, confirmed ), the county remained as the Bratislava župa by the year 1927 there are, but the powers of this management area were completely different to the previous and the boundaries were changed slightly in 1923. A very small part south of the village Šamorín right of the Danube remained in Hungary and came to Győr, Moson és Pozsony ( from 1945 Győr- Moson and after the great Komitatsreform 1950 to today Győr- Moson -Sopron ).

1938-1945 the southeastern half of the former county Pressburg was busy because of the First Vienna Award of Hungary. The portion south of the Little Danube came as the county Komárom, a small strip of land north of the Little Danube, who had also fallen to Hungary, became part of the newly created Hungarian Pozsony county Nyitra - with capital Nové Zámky (Hungarian Érsekújvár ).

While the independence of Slovakia in the years 1939-1945, the management unit Bratislavská župa was established in 1940 in the Slovak part rebuilt. After the war, Czechoslovakia was restored and released in 1993.

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

County subdivision

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