Zala County (former)

The Zala county (Hungarian Zala Vármegye, Latin comitatus Zaladiensis ) 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 counties of Zala and Veszprém as well as in the northern part of the country of Croatia (on the territory of today Međimurje County ) and in the northeast of Slovenia ( to the Lendava ).

Location

The county bordered on the Austrian crown land of Styria and the Hungarian counties Vas ( Vas ), Wesprim ( Veszprém ), Somogy, Belovar - Kőrös and Varasd ( the latter two were part of the Kingdom of Croatia and Slavonia ). In the south of the Drava river was a natural border in the east of Lake Balaton, and flowed through the territory of the Mur and the Zala.

History

The county was created in the 11th century and was in this form until 1918. The southwestern part, called the Mur Island in 1919 ceded to the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes ( by the Treaty of Trianon in 1920 under international law confirmed ). Due to the large Komitatsreform 1950 of county Vas came north of the city Zalaegerszeg to Komitatsgebiet added, in return, the area north of Lake Balaton was added to the Veszprém County. See further, see Zala county.

County subdivision

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

The cities Čakovec and Prelog are in today's Croatia, Lendava in Slovenia, all other places in present-day Hungary.