Pozsony county

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Comitatus
Pozsony County

County of the Kingdom of Hungary

9th century – 1920

Coat of arms

Capital

Pozsony

History

- Established

9th century

- Treaty of Trianon

June 4, 1920

Area

- 1910

4,370 km² (1,687 sq mi)

Population

- 1910 est.

389,700

Density

89.2 /km² (231 /sq mi)

Today part of

Slovakia, Hungary

Bratislava is the current name of the capital.

Pozsony county was a historic administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory lies in present-day western Slovakia.

Its name changed along with that of the city of Pozsony, today's Bratislava. Its names around 1900 were Pozsony vármegye in Hungarian, Prešpurská župa in Slovak and Preßburger Gespanschaft in German.

1 Geography
2 Capitals
3 History
4 Demographics
5 Subdivisions

[edit] Geography

Map of Pozsony county

The county shared borders with the Austrian land of Lower Austria and the Hungarian counties Nyitra (Nitra), Komárom (Komárno), Győr and Moson. It was situated between the river Morava in the west, the river Danube in the south, and the river Váh in the east. The southern part of the Little Carpathians divided the county into two. It also covered most of the island known today as Žitný ostrov between the Danube and the Little Danube. Its area was 4,370 km² around 1910.

[edit] Capitals

The capitals of Pozsony county were the Bratislava Castle and Šamorín, and from the 18th century onwards the town of Pressburg (present Bratislava).

[edit] History

A sort of predecessor to Pozsony county existed as early as the 9th century during the time of Great Moravia. After Bratislava had become part of the Kingdom of Hungary, the Hungarian comitatus of Bratislava was created around 1000 or even earlier. It was one of the first counties created in the Kingdom Hungary. Its territory comprised roughly both the present-day Bratislava Region and Trnava Region. Throughout its history it was among the most prosperous territories of the Kingdom, and until the late 18th century it was the most advanced and prosperous of them. In the 18th and 19th century, the population consisted of Slovaks (mainly in the north), Hungarians (mainly in the south), Germans (mainly in Bratislava and larger towns) and Croats (mainly in the suburbs of Bratislava).

In the aftermath of World War I, most of Pozsony county became part of newly formed Czechoslovakia, as recognized by the concerned states in the 1920 Treaty of Trianon. As Bratislava county, it continued to exist until 1927 in Czechoslovakia, but it had completely different powers and somewhat modified borders. A small part south of the river Danube remained part of Hungary and joined Győr-Moson-Pozsony county.

Following the provisions of the controversial First Vienna Award, the southeastern part of the area (Žitný ostrov, Senec, Galanta) came under Hungarian control in November 1938. The Trianon borders were restored after World War II.

[edit] Demographics

Population by language (1910 census):

Slovak = 166,017
Hungarian = 163,367
German = 53,822
Croatian = 1,934

[edit] Subdivisions

In the early 20th century, the subdivisions of Pozsony/Bratislava county were:

Districts (járás)
District	Capital
Dunaszerdahely	Dunaszerdahely (Slovak: Dunajská Streda)
Galánta	Galánta (Slovak: Galanta)
Malacka	Malacka (Slovak: Malacky)
Nagyszombat	Nagyszombat (Slovak: Trnava)
Pozsony	Pozsony (Slovak: Bratislava)
Somorja	Somorja (Slovak: Šamorín)
Szenc	Szenc (Slovak: Senec)
Urban counties (törvényhatósági jogú város)
Pozsony (Slovak: Bratislava)
Urban districts (rendezett tanácsú város)
Bazin (Slovak: Pezinok)
Modor (Slovak: Modra)
Nagyszombat (Slovak: Trnava)
Szentgyörgy (Slovak: Svätý Jur)

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