Győr (county)

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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] Subdivisions

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

Districts (járás)
District	Capital
Puszta	Győrszentmárton (renamed Pannonhalma)
Sokoróalja	Tét
Tószigetcsilizköz	Győr
Urban counties (törvényhatósági jogú város)
Győr