Sopron (county)

Infobox Former Subdivision
native_name =
conventional_long_name = Sopron County
common_name = Sopron
subdivision = County
nation = the Kingdom of Hungary
p1 =
s1 =
flag_s1 =
year_start = 12th century
event_end = Treaty of Trianon
year_end = 1920
date_end = June 4




capital = Sopron
stat_area1 = 3256
stat_pop1 = 283500
stat_year1 = 1910
today = Hungary, Austria
footnotes =

Sopron (-Hungarian, German: "Ödenburg") is the name of a historic administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary in present-day north-western Hungary and eastern Austria. The capital of the county was Sopron.

Geography

Sopron county shared borders with the Austrian land Lower Austria and the Hungarian counties Moson, Győr, Veszprém and Vas. The lake Neusiedler See lies partly in the county. Its area was 3,241 km² around 1910.

History

The Sopron comitatus arose as one of the first comitatus of the Kingdom of Hungary.

In 1918 (confirmed by the Treaty of Trianon 1920), the western part of the county became part of the new Austrian state Burgenland. The eastern part stayed in Hungary. In 1921, it was decided by referendum that the city of Sopron would join Hungary instead of Austria.

After World War II, Sopron county merged with Győr-Moson-Pozsony to form Győr-Sopron county. This county was renamed to Győr-Moson-Sopron county in the early 1990s. A small part of Sopron county went to Vas county.

ubdivisions

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

Eisenstadt, Mattersburg, Rust and Oberpullendorf are presently in Austria.