Győr (county)

Győr (county)

Infobox Former Subdivision
native_name =
conventional_long_name = Győr County
common_name = Győr
subdivision = County
nation = the Kingdom of Hungary
p1 =
s1 =
year_start = 1598
event_end = Treaty of Trianon
year_end = 1920
date_end = June 4




capital = Győr
stat_area1 = 1534
stat_pop1 = 136300
stat_year1 = 1910
today = Slovakia, Hungary

Győr county (in Hungarian: "Győr (vár)megye") was a historic administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary in present-day north-western Hungary (95%) and south-western Slovakia (about 5%), mostly on the right (south) side of the Danube river. The capital of the county was the city of Győr.

Geography

Győr county shared borders with the counties Moson, Pozsony, Komárom, Veszprém and Sopron. The rivers Danube, and Rába run through the county. Its area was 1534 km² around 1910.

History

The Győr comitatus arose as one of the first comitatus of the Kingdom of Hungary. It was conquered by the Turks in 1541, and again by the Austrians-Hungarians around 1598.

In 1920 the Treaty of Trianon assigned a very small part of the territory of the county to Czechoslovakia. The rest stayed in Hungary and merged with the eastern part of Moson county and a very small part of Pozsony county to form "Győr-Moson-Pozsony" county.

After World War II, "Győr-Moson-Pozsony" county merged with Sopron (County) to form Győr-Sopron county. This county was renamed to Győr-Moson-Sopron county in the early 1990s. The part of the county north of the river Danube is now in Slovakia, Trnava Region.

ubdivisions

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


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