Csongrád (former county)
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| County seat in 1910 | Szentes |
| Area in 1910 | 3,569 km² |
| Population in 1910 | 325,500 |
| Present country | Hungary, Serbia |
Csongrád (Hungarian: Csongrád, Serbian: Čongrad or Чонград) was a historic administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory, which was smaller than that of present Csongrád county, is presently in southern Hungary and northern Serbia. The capital of the county was Szentes.
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[edit] Name
Name Csongrád/Čongrad is Slavic by origin. In Slavic languages this name means "a black city" (čon/čorni = black, grad = city/town). Indeed, the county was named after a town of Csongrád.
[edit] Geography
Csongrád county shared borders with the Hungarian counties Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun, Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok, Békés, Csanád, Torontál and Bács-Bodrog. The river Tisza flowed through the county. Its area was 3,544 km² around 1910.
[edit] History
Csongrád county arose as one of the first comitatus of the Kingdom of Hungary, in the 11th century. It was taken by the Ottoman Empire in the 16th century, and by the Habsburg Monarchy in the end of the 17th century.
In 1918 (confirmed by the Treaty of Trianon in 1920), a small part of the county (a small area around Horgoš in northern Vojvodina) was assigned to the newly formed Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (renamed to Yugoslavia in 1929). The rest was assigned to the newly independent Hungary as Csongrád county.
After World War II, the southern part of former Csanád-Arad-Torontál county (the Hungarian part of pre-1918 Torontál county and the south-western part of pre-1918 Csanád county) was added to Csongrád county.
[edit] Demographics
According to the census of 1910, the county had 325,568 inhabitants.
Population by language (1910 census):
- Hungarian = 319,274
- German = 2,862
- Serbian = 1,235
[edit] Subdivisions
In the early 20th century, the subdivisions of Csongrád county were:
| Districts (járás) | |
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| District | Capital |
| Csongrád | Csongrád |
| Tiszáninnen | Kiskundorozsma |
| Tiszántúl | Mindszent |
| Urban counties (törvényhatósági jogú város) | |
| Hódmezővásárhely | |
| Szeged | |
| Urban districts (rendezett tanácsú város) | |
| Szentes | |
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