Komárom county

Komárom county (in Latin: comitatus Comaromiensis, in Hungarian: Komárom (vár)megye, in Slovak: Komárňanský komitát / Komárňanská stolica / Komárňanská župa, in German: Komorner Gespanschaft / Komitat Komorn) was a historic administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary in present-day southern Slovakia (1/2) and north-western Hungary (1/2) on both sides of the Danube river.

1 Geography
2 Capitals
3 History
4 Subdivisions

[edit] Geography

Komárom county shared borders with the counties Győr, Pozsony (Bratislava), Nyitra (Nitra), Bars (Tekov), Esztergom, Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun, Fejér and Veszprém. The rivers Danube, Váh and Nitra run through the county. It also covered the eastern part of the island between the Danube and the Little Danube (Žitný ostrov, translates as rye island, Csallóköz in Hungarian). Its area was 2834 km² around 1910.

[edit] Capitals

The capital of the county was the Komárom/Komárno Castle and later the town of Komárom/Komárno (today in Slovakia).

[edit] History

The Komárom comitatus arose in the 11th century as one of the first comitatus of the Kingdom of Hungary. It was situated within a radius of about 20 km around Komárom/Komárno.

In the aftermath of World War I, the part of Komárom county north of the Danube became part of newly formed Czechoslovakia (as Komárno county), as recognized by the concerned states in the 1920 Treaty of Trianon. In 1922, the territory of Komárno county was divided between the Nitra county and the Bratislava county. The part south of the Danube stayed in Hungary and merged with the southern part of Esztergom county to form Komárom-Esztergom county.

Following the provisions of the controversial First Vienna Award, the Czechoslovak part came under Hungarian control in November 1938. A new Komárom county was recreated, which included, besides the territory of pre-1918 Komárom county, most of the Rye Island (Žitný ostrov). After World War II, the pre-war situation was reestablished, except that the name of the Hungarian part became Komárom county again. This county was renamed to Komárom-Esztergom county in 1992. The part of the pre-1918 county north of the river Danube is now in Slovakia, is part of the Nitra region and is largely identical with the Komárno district.

[edit] Subdivisions

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

Districts (járás)
District	Capital
Csallóköz, SK Žitný ostrov	Nemesócsa, SK Zemianska Olča
Gesztes	Nagyigmánd
Tata	Tata
Udvard, SK Dvory nad Žitavou	Ógyalla, SK Hurbanovo
Urban counties (törvényhatósági jogú város)
Komárom, SK Komárno