- Gemer
:"The article is about the historical region: for the village in
Slovakia , seeGemer (village) ."Gemer ( _sk. Gemer, _hu. Gömör, _de. Gemer or Gömör,
Latin : "Gömörinum") is the name of a historic administrative county (comitatus) of theKingdom of Hungary . In the 19th century, and in the beginning of the 20th century, it was united with theKishont region to formGömör-Kishont county (in Slovak: "Gemer-Malohont"). Its territory is presently in southernSlovakia and northernHungary . Today Gömör is only an informal designation of the corresponding territory.Geography
Gemer county was situated in
Slovenské rudohorie approximately between the present-day Slovak-Hungarian border, the townsPoltár andRožňava and theLow Tatra s (Nízke Tatry). The riverSajó flowed through the county. Its area was 4,289 km² around 1910.Capitals
The capital of Gömör/Gemer was the Gömör/
Gemer Castle , and from the early 18th century Pelsőc/Plešivec . The capital after the addition of Kishont/Malohont wasRimaszombat /Rimavská Sobota .History
Gömör/Gemer is one of the oldest counties of the
Kingdom of Hungary , and was already mentioned in the 11th century. The territory approximately between the townsTisovec andRimavská Sobota , called Kishont/Malohont, was added from 1786 until 1790, and again in 1802. The county was called Gömör-Kishont/Gemer-Malohont since.In 1918 (confirmed by the
Treaty of Trianon 1920), most of the county became part of newly formedCzechoslovakia , except 7,5% of its area (aroundPutnok ), which became temporarily part of the Hungarian countyBorsod-Gömör-Kishont (presently part ofBorsod-Abaúj-Zemplén ).The Czechoslovakian part of the county was part of the Slovak Land ("Slovenská krajina/zem"). During
World War II , whenCzechoslovakia was split temporarily, most of the county became part of Hungary under theFirst Vienna Award , and the Gömör-Kishont County was recreated. This situation lasted until the end of the war, when 92.5% of the area became part of Czechoslovakia again. Today in Hungary the name of Gömör/Gemer preserved only in the name of a small village,Gömörszőlős and in that of Gömöri station, the smaller railway station ofMiskolc .Since 1993, when
Czechoslovakia was split, Gemer and Malohont are part ofSlovakia ,Banská Bystrica Region .ee also
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List of traditional regions of Slovakia
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