Somogy County (former)

The Somogy ( German rarely county Schomodj or Somogy, Somogy Vármegye Hungarian, Latin comitatus Simigiensis ) was a historic administrative unit ( county / county) in the Kingdom of Hungary.

The area lies in present-day South West Hungary on the face of today's Somogy county, however, was slightly larger than this.

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Location

The county bordered on the counties of Zala, Veszprém ( Veszprém ), Tolna, Baranya, Verőce and Belovar - Kőrös ( the latter two were part of the Kingdom of Croatia and Slavonia ). It lay on the southern shore of Lake Balaton and was drained by the river Drava.

History

Somogy one of the few historic counties of Hungary, which have remained untouched by the Treaty of Trianon. The county was created in the 11th century and was in this form to large Komitatsreform 1950. Merely the city Siófok 1850 was carved out of the county and assigned to the county Veszprém. 1950 was allocated in the wake of the great Komitatsreform the area around Szigetvár the Baranya county. See further, see Somogy county.

County subdivision

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

All these places are in the present-day Hungary.

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