- Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun
Infobox Former Subdivision
native_name =
conventional_long_name = Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun County
common_name = Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun
subdivision = County
nation = theKingdom of Hungary
p1 =
s1 =
year_start = 1876
event_end =
year_end = 1946
date_end =
capital = Budapest
stat_area1 = 12228
stat_pop1 = 1909600
stat_year1 = 1910
today =Hungary Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun is the name of a historic administrative county (
comitatus ) of theKingdom of Hungary . Its territory is presently in centralHungary , comprising the territory of the present Hungarian county Pest and the northern part of presentBács-Kiskun county. The capital of the county wasBudapest .Geography
Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun county shared borders with the counties Komárom, Esztergom,
Hont , Nógrád, Heves, Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok, Csongrád,Bács-Bodrog , Tolna andFejér . Its territory covered the eastern bank of the riverDanube fromVisegrád in the north to (excluding) Baja in the south, stretching to the riverTisza in the east. A part of the county (Pilis) was on the west bank of theDanube , nearBudapest . Its area was 12,228 km² around 1910.History
The counties Pest and Pilis were formed in the 11th century. Pest was the area on the left (east) bank of the
Danube around present-dayBudapest , Pilis was on the opposite bank. They were united and became the political, cultural and economical centre ofHungary . TheSolt region (the left bank of theDanube south ofRáckeve ), which previously belonged toFejér county, was incorporated in Pest-Pilis-Solt county in the 17th century. Kiskunság (Little Cumania ) was added in 1876, creating Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun county.After
World War II the county was split in two roughly equal parts. The northern part became Pest county, the southern part merged withBács-Bodrog county to formBács-Kiskun county.ubdivisions
Before approx. 1897, the subdivisions of Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun were (felső is upper, közép is middle, alsó is lower):
After approx. 1897, the subdivisions of Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun were:
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