Torontál County

County Torontal ( Vármegye Torontál Hungarian, Latin comitatus Torntaliensis ) was a county ( regional administrative unit ) in the historic Kingdom of Hungary.

Location

The area was in the historical Banat and bordered to the south to the Kingdom of Serbia, on the west by the county of Syrmia and the Bács- Bodrog, on the north by the counties Csongrád and county Csanád, in the northeast for a short distance to the Arad County and in the east to the county Temes. It turned the Danube the southern border, the river Tisza 's western border and the eastern border of the Mures (now Romanian Mureş ) dar.

History

The county was created in the 15th century. After the occupation by the Ottomans in the area came in the 16th century to eyalet Temešvár and after the reconquest of the Banat 1718 Temes Banat. In 1778 it became part of the Kingdom of Hungary, the county has been restored. Between 1849-1860 it was the Serbian Voivodship and the Temeser Banat attached and then re-established as a county.

After the end of the First World War in 1918 was in the field, the Banat Republic. However, this was the Treaty of Trianon between the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes in the south ( most of ), Romania to the north and Hungary divided (small area south of Szeged ).

While the Yugoslav share in Vojvodina incorporated ( except for a small part in Belgrade, part of the City of Belgrade, and thus to Central Serbia), Romania's share of the former county is now in Romanian Timiş county, the Little Hungarian part is now part of county Csongrád ( until 1950 part of the county Csanád - Arad - Torontál.

County subdivision

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

The places Banloc, Cenei, Sânnicolau Mare, Periam and Jimbolia are in present-day Romania, the remaining places in present-day Serbia.