Liptó (county)

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Liptó Vármegye
Liptó County

County of the Kingdom of Hungary

15th century – 1920

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Coat of arms

Capital

Liptószentmiklós

History

- Established

15th century

- Treaty of Trianon

June 4, 1920

Area

- 1910

2,246 km² (867 sq mi)

Population

- 1910 est.

86,900

Density

38.7 /km² (100.2 /sq mi)

Today part of

Slovakia

Liptovský Mikuláš is the current name of the capital.

Liptó (Slovak:Liptov, Hungarian: Liptó, German: Liptau, Polish: Liptów, Latin: Liptovium) is the name of a historic administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory is presently in northern Slovakia. Today, Liptov is only an informal designation of the corresponding territory.

1 Geography
2 Capitals
3 History
4 Demographics
5 Subdivisions

[edit] Geography

Liptó county shared borders with the Austrian land Galicia and the Hungarian counties Árva (Orava), Turóc (Turiec), Zólyom (Zvolen), Gömör-Kishont (Gemer-Malohont) and Szepes (Spiš). The county's territory was situated along the upper Váh river between the High Tatras and the Low Tatras. Its area was 2,247 km² around 1910.

Today, the territory of the former Liptó county largely corresponds to the Ružomberok District and Liptovský Mikuláš District in northern Slovakia. Three villages (Liptovská Teplička, Štrba and Štrbské Pleso) are now in the Poprad District.

[edit] Capitals

The capitals of the county were the Liptó Castle and the villages of Liptovská Mara and Nemecká Ľupča (Partizánska Ľupča), and since 1677 the capital was Liptovský Mikuláš.

[edit] History

Liptó county as a Hungarian comitatus arose before the 15th century. In the aftermath of World War I, the area became part of newly formed Czechoslovakia, as recognized by the concerned states in the 1920 Treaty of Trianon.

[edit] Demographics

Population by language (1910 census):

Slovak = 78,098
Hungarian = 4,365
German = 2,591

[edit] Subdivisions

Map of Liptó county in 1910

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

Districts (járás)
District	Capital
Liptószentmiklós	Liptószentmiklós, SK Liptovský Mikuláš
Liptóújvár	Liptóújvár, SK Liptovský Hrádok
Németlipcse	Németlipcse, SK Nemecká Ľupča (currently Partizánska Ľupča)
Rózsahegy	Rózsahegy, SK Ružomberok
Urban districts (rendezett tanácsú város)
Rózsahegy, SK Ružomberok

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