Somogy (former county)

Infobox Former Subdivision
native_name =
conventional_long_name = Somogy County
common_name = Somogy
subdivision = County
nation = the Kingdom of Hungary
p1 =
s1 =
year_start = 11th century
event_end = Treaty of Trianon
year_end = 1920
date_end = June 4




capital = Kaposvár
stat_area1 = 6675
stat_pop1 = 366000
stat_year1 = 1910
today = Hungary

Somogy was the name of a historic administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory, which was slightly larger than that of present Somogy county, is presently in south-western Hungary. The capital of the county was Kaposvár.

Geography

Somogy county shared borders with the Hungarian counties Zala, Veszprém, Tolna, Baranya, Verőce and Belovár-Körös (the latter two part of Croatia-Slavonia). It covered the southern shore of Lake Balaton and the region south of the lake. The river Drave formed most of its southern border. Its area was 6530 km² around 1910.

History

Somogy county arose as one of the first comitatus of the Kingdom of Hungary, in the 11th century.

The city Siófok, which used to be in Somogy county before the 1850s, went back from Veszprém county to Somogy county before World War II. After World War II the district of Szigetvár went to Baranya county.

ubdivisions

In the early 20th century, the subdivisions of Somogy county were: