Szabolcs County

The Szabolcs ( German rarely county Saboltsch; Hungarian Szabolcs Vármegye, Latin comitatus Szabolcsensis ) was a historic administrative unit ( county / county) in the Kingdom of Hungary.

Location

It was for the most part south of the Tisza around its capital, Nyíregyháza and was located almost entirely in present-day Hungary, only a tiny part north of the river Tisza in the places Malé Trakany and Veľké Trakany belonged to the present-day Slovakia.

The county bordered on the north and north-west of the county Semplin ( Zemplén ), for a short distance to the northeast of the county Ung, on the east by the Bereg county and south of the county of Satu Mare ( Szatmár ), for a short distance to the southeast by the Bihar county, in the south on the Hajdú and to the west by the Borsod County.

1910, it had 319 818 inhabitants living on an area of ​​4637 km ².

Administrative headquarters

The county seat was Nyíregyháza.

History

The county is one of the oldest counties in the Kingdom of Hungary. It is named after one of the seven army commander of the Conquest period.

1918 was pooled together with a part of the former county Ung for Szabolcs- Ung with the capital Nyíregyháza, a tiny part of the territory north of the Tisza at the places Malé Trakany and Veľké Trakany came in the wake of border corrections to the newly created Czechoslovakia ( by the Treaty of Trianon in 1920 under international law, confirmed ).

After the Second World War, the county with the Hungarian parts of the counties of Satu Mare and Bereg was united to the Szabolcs- Szatmár -Bereg county, with some parts arrived at the places Polgár and northeast of Debrecen ) for newly created Hajdú- Bihar.

County subdivision

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