Trencsén County

County of Trenčín ( German also Trenčín county; Hungarian Vármegye Trencsén, Slovak Trenčianska stolica / župa or Trenčín county, Latin comitatus Trentsiniensis / Trenchiniensis ) is the name of a historic administrative unit ( county / county) of the Kingdom of Hungary. The area is located in what is now western Slovakia.

Geography

County Trenčín bordered to the north by the Austrian crown land of Austrian Silesia (or pre- 1867 times also Moravia or principality of Teschen ), in the northeast on the crown land Galicia (or before 1772 in Poland), in the north- east by the county Arwa ( Árva ), to the east the county Turz ( Turóc ), in the south-east and south the county Neutra ( Nyitra ) and to the west by Austrian crown land of Moravia.

The county thus extended over an area in the extreme northwest of the present-day Slovakia between the border of present-day Czech Republic, Nové Mesto nad Váhom, the counties Turz and Arwa and the Polish border. The area was drained by the Waag and had 1910 310.437 inhabitants in an area of 4456 km ².

Management seats

The administrative center of the county was originally the Trenčín castle, from about 1650 then the city of Trenčín.

History

A kind of predecessor of the county Trenčín was already in the 9th century during the reign of Great Moravia about this area. In the 10th and 11th centuries it was probably partly to Bohemia and Poland ( castellania Trecen ).

The management unit was created as a county of the Kingdom of Hungary in the late 11th century, after the majority of the area was conquered by the Kingdom of Hungary.

After the area in 1918, confirmed by the Treaty of Trianon in 1920, part of the newly formed Czechoslovakia, it was continued until 1922, however, the powers of this management area were completely different to the previous ones.

After the emergence of an independent Slovakia in 1939, the management unit Trenčianska župa was created back in 1940, slightly expanded and existed until 1945. After the end of World War II in 1945, Czechoslovakia was re-established. After the peaceful separation in 1993 in the states of Slovakia and the Czech Republic, the area eventually became part of the independent Slovakia.

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):