Pozsony county

Infobox Former Subdivision
native_name = Comitatus
conventional_long_name = Pozsony County
common_name = Pozsony
subdivision = County
nation = the Kingdom of Hungary
p1 =
s1 =
flag_s1 =
year_start = 9th century
event_end = Treaty of Trianon
year_end = 1920
date_end = June 4

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capital = Pozsony
stat_area1 = 4370
stat_pop1 = 389700
stat_year1 = 1910
today = Slovakia, Hungary
footnotes = Bratislava is the current name of the capital.

Pozsony county was a historic administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory lies in present-day western Slovakia.

Its name changed along with that of the city of Pozsony, today's Bratislava. Its names around 1900 were "Pozsony vármegye" in Hungarian, "Prešpurská župa" in Slovak and "Preßburger Gespanschaft" in German.

Geography

The county shared borders with the Austrian land of Lower Austria and the Hungarian counties Nyitra (Nitra), Komárom (Komárno), Győr and Moson. It was situated between the river Morava in the west, the river Danube in the south, and the river Váh in the east. The southern part of the Little Carpathians divided the county into two. It also covered most of the island known today as Žitný ostrov between the Danube and the Little Danube. Its area was 4,370 km² around 1910.

eats

The seats of Pozsony county were the Bratislava Castle and Šamorín, and from the 18th century onwards the town of Pressburg (present Bratislava).

History

A sort of predecessor to Pozsony county existed as early as the 9th century during the time of Great Moravia. After Pozsony county's territory had become part of the Kingdom of Hungary, the Hungarian comitatus was created around 1000 or even earlier. It was one of the first counties created in the Kingdom Hungary. Its territory comprised roughly both the present-day Bratislava Region and Trnava Region. Throughout its history it was among the most prosperous territories of Hungary, and until the late 18th century it was particularly advanced and prosperous. In the 18th and 19th century, the population consisted of Slovaks (mainly in the north), Hungarians (mainly in the south), Germans (mainly in Bratislava and larger towns) and Croats (mainly in the suburbs of Bratislava).

In the aftermath of World War I, most of Pozsony county became part of newly formed Czechoslovakia, as recognized by the concerned states in the 1920 Treaty of Trianon. As Bratislava county, it continued to exist until 1927 in Czechoslovakia, but it had completely different powers and somewhat modified borders. A small part south of the river Danube remained part of Hungary and joined Győr-Moson-Pozsony county.

Following the provisions of the First Vienna Award, the southeastern part of the area (Žitný ostrov, Senec, Galanta) came under Hungarian administration in November 1938. The Trianon borders were restored after World War II.

Demographics

Population by language (1910 census):
*Slovak = 166,017
*Hungarian = 163,367
*German = 53,822
*Croatian = 1,934

ubdivisions

In the early 20th century, the subdivisions of Pozsony/Bratislava county were: