Vas County (former)

County Vas (Hungarian Vas Vármegye, Latin comitatus Castriferrei ) was a historic administrative unit ( county / county) in the Kingdom of Hungary.

The area lies in present-day western Hungary on the face of today's Vas county, and in the eastern parts of Austria ( on the territory of today's Burgenland ) and the northern Slovenia ( Prekmurje ).

Location

The county bordered on the Austrian crown lands of Lower Austria and Styria and the Hungarian counties Sopron ( Sopron ), Wesprim ( Veszprém ) and Zala. It stretched between the Mur River in the south, the Alps to the west and the river Marcal to the east, while it was drained by the Raab.

History

The county was created in the 11th century and was in this form until 1918. The western part came to the Burgenland until 1921 officially created in Austria, while the rest of the eastern part remained in Hungary. Just to the south a small part, the so-called Prekmurje to the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes was ceded. Due to the large Komitatsreform 1950 a part of the county of Sopron was added to Komitatsgebiet, in return, some communities were north of Zalaegerszeg for Zala County and a small area west of Papa to Veszprém. See further, see Vas county.

County subdivision

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

The cities Oberwart and Güssing are in today's Austria, Murska Sobota in Slovenia, all other places in present-day Hungary.